Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Dave Kellett

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sade, Marquis De

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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Wolcot, John

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Auden, W. H.

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Madonna

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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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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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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Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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.