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

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

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

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

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

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Proverb, Chinese

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Madonna

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Baum, Vicki

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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

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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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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 want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Warhol, Andy

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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

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

Johnson, Don

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Voltaire

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