Motivational Quotes

Fame

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Carver, George Washington

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

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Blake, William

10.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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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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

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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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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

20.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

21.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Warhol, Andy

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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

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

28.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Chuang-tzu

30.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

36.

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

Pope, Alexander

38.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

41.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Cato The Elder

46.

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

Johnson, Don

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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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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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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