Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

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

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

Auden, W. H.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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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

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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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

18.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Hazlitt, William

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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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

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

Dave Kellett

28.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

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

Cato The Elder

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

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

Voltaire

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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Capote, Truman

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