Motivational Quotes

Fame

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

- Lessing, Doris

Best Quotes about Fame

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)

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

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

Carver, George Washington

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

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

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Madonna

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Johnson, Don

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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