Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Voltaire

11.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Dave Kellett

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Auden, W. H.

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Madonna

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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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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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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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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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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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Johnson, Don

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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

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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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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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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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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Hellman, Lillian

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