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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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)

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

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Voltaire

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

Hazlitt, William

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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 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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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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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

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

Chuang-tzu

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It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Madonna

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Hellman, Lillian

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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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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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Sade, Marquis De

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad