Motivational Quotes

Fame

I want to be famous everywhere.

- Pavarotti, Luciano

Best Quotes about Fame

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Blake, William

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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

10.

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

11.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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)

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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

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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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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

17.

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.

18.

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

Johnson, Don

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

21.

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

Wolcot, John

22.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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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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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 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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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

30.

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

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

Dave Kellett

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

Auden, W. H.

33.

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

34.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

40.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Voltaire