Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carver, George Washington

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davis, Miles

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

Villiers, George

10.

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

Capote, Truman

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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

19.

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 always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

21.

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

Mills, C. Wright

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

24.

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

25.

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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

27.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

28.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

29.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

30.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

31.

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

32.

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

33.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

34.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Johnson, Don

36.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

38.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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

40.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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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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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

44.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

45.

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