Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davis, Bette

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Madonna

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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.

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

Voltaire

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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

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

Hellman, Lillian

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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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