Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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)

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rosie O'Donnell

10.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Johnson, Don

12.

A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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

14.

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

Chuang-tzu

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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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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

18.

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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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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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

24.

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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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Monroe, Marilyn

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Hellman, Lillian

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

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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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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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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

37.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

43.

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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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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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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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.