Motivational Quotes

Fame

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

- Bono, Edward De

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Blake, William

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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 but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Madonna

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

Dave Kellett

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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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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

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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 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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Voltaire

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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