Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Proverb, Chinese

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

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

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.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

10.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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

12.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

13.

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

14.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

15.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

16.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

17.

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

18.

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

Davis, Miles

19.

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

Voltaire

20.

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

21.

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

Capote, Truman

22.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

23.

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

Warhol, Andy

24.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Hazlitt, William

26.

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

27.

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

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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

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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.

30.

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

31.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

32.

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Benjamin Haydon

34.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

35.

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

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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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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.