Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

10.

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

11.

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

Wolcot, John

12.

I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

15.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

16.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

17.

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

18.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

19.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

20.

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)

21.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

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.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

25.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

26.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

28.

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

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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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Huxley, Aldous

33.

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

Blake, William

34.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

35.

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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

37.

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

Alexander The Great

38.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Voltaire

40.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

41.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

Warhol, Andy

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

46.

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

Madonna

47.

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

Baum, Vicki

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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