Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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 hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Wolcot, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Chuang-tzu

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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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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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Voltaire

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

Davis, Miles

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Johnson, Don

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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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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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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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