Motivational Quotes

Fame

What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Fame

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

10.

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

11.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

12.

Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

13.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

15.

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

16.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

17.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

18.

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Dave Kellett

19.

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

20.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

21.

The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Warhol, Andy

22.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

23.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

27.

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

28.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

32.

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Byron, Lord

33.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

35.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis

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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

45.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

49.

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Crockett, Davy

50.

I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek