Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Voltaire

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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Wolcot, John

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Davis, Bette

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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 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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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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 fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Chuang-tzu

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Dave Kellett

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

Rivarol, Antoine