Motivational Quotes

Fame

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

- Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

Best Quotes about Fame

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Monroe, Marilyn

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

11.

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

Laura Preble

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

15.

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

16.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Sade, Marquis De

18.

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Hazlitt, William

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

Auden, W. H.

20.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Warhol, Andy

22.

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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Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

25.

Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.

Virgil

26.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

30.

Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Miller, Henry

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Caussin, Nicolas

33.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

34.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

35.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Updike, John

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

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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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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

44.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

45.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Voltaire

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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William