Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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

Davis, Miles

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Pope, Alexander

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Carver, George Washington

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Pound, Ezra

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Villiers, George

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Cato The Elder

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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

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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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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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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

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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

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

Madonna

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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