Motivational Quotes

Fame

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

- Victor Hugo

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Capote, Truman

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

10.

Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Carver, George Washington

15.

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

Mills, C. Wright

16.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Benjamin Haydon

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

31.

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

Wolcot, John

32.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Davis, Bette

37.

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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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

40.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Johnson, Don

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

Madonna

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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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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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

47.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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