Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Madonna

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

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

Baum, Vicki

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

10.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

11.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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

Blake, William

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Johnson, Don

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

38.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Voltaire

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Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Warhol, Andy

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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis 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