Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Rosie O'Donnell

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Caussin, Nicolas

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Madonna

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Pound, Ezra

10.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Sade, Marquis De

13.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

14.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

17.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

18.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

19.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Cato The Elder

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Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

32.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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.

34.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Sewell, Thomas

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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)

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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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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

47.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alda, Alan

48.

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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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