Motivational Quotes

Fame

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

- Wynette, Tammy

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Warhol, Andy

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.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Mills, C. Wright

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

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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

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis

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

Blake, William

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

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

Hazlitt, William

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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel 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

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

22.

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

Laura Preble

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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

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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

34.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Voltaire

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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

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

39.

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

Johnson, Don

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

Capote, Truman

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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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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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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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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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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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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