Motivational Quotes

Fame

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Dave Kellett

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

Parkinson, Cecil

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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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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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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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

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

20.

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

Warhol, Andy

21.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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

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

Blake, William

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Voltaire

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

Madonna

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Johnson, Don

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Pound, Ezra

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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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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If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

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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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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