Motivational Quotes

Fame

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

- Carver, George Washington

Best Quotes about Fame

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

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Wolcot, John

12.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

15.

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

16.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

18.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

20.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

22.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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.

24.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

25.

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

Blake, William

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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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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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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

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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

30.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

31.

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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Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Miller, Henry

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Voltaire

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

Alexander The Great

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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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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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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Updike, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.