Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fame

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

William Shakespeare

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

15.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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

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

Davis, Bette

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

Blake, William

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Laura Preble

40.

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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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

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

Auden, W. H.

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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

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Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dave Kellett

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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