Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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)

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

Carver, George Washington

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

11.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Hazlitt, William

24.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

25.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

26.

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

27.

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

Wolcot, John

28.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

29.

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.

30.

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

Dave Kellett

31.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

48.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

49.

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.