Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Sewell, Thomas

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

Sade, Marquis De

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Blake, William

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

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

Baum, Vicki

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

11.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

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Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Davis, Bette

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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

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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

20.

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

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

23.

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

24.

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

29.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

32.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

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