Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

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

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Sewell, Thomas

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

10.

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

Laura Preble

11.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

12.

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

13.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

14.

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

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

19.

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

20.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

21.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

23.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

24.

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

25.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

29.

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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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

31.

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

32.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Alexander The Great

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

41.

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

43.

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

Voltaire

44.

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

Ellinger, Jules

45.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

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Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur