Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Wolcot, John

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Davis, Bette

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

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

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Blake, William

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Dave Kellett

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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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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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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict 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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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

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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 you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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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 proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius