Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Auden, W. H.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

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

Hellman, Lillian

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Dave Kellett

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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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

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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

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Warhol, Andy

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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

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Alexander The Great

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

Madonna

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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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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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Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Johnson, Don

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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Mills, C. Wright

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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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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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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

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wolcot, John

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Laura Preble