Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Caussin, Nicolas

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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)

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

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

Mills, C. Wright

10.

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

11.

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

Villiers, George

12.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

13.

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

14.

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

Cato The Elder

15.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Chuang-tzu

17.

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

18.

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

Laura Preble

19.

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

Johnson, Don

20.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

21.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

Alexander The Great

24.

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

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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

27.

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

29.

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

30.

A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

33.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

34.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

35.

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

Davis, Bette

36.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

37.

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

Baum, Vicki

38.

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

Voltaire

39.

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

Warhol, Andy

40.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

41.

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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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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

46.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Carver, George Washington

49.

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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo