Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Carver, George Washington

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

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

10.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Sewell, Thomas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Madonna

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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

24.

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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

30.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Dave Kellett

40.

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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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Blake, William

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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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