Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Chuang-tzu

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

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

Hellman, Lillian

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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

Davis, Miles

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

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

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Villiers, George

10.

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

11.

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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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

13.

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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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

15.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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

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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

18.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

19.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

20.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

21.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

22.

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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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

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.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

26.

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

27.

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

28.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

Capote, Truman

30.

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

31.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

32.

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

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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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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

37.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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.

43.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

44.

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

45.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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.