Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

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

Johnson, Don

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

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

Villiers, George

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Sewell, Thomas

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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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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

14.

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

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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 a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Davis, Bette

19.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

20.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

23.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Madonna

25.

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

26.

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Blake, William

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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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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Baum, Vicki

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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

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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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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

48.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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