Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

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

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Davis, Miles

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

Carver, George Washington

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

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

10.

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

Cato The Elder

11.

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

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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

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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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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

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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 present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

21.

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

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Alexander The Great

29.

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

Huxley, Aldous

30.

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

31.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

34.

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

Davis, Bette

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Blake, William

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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

40.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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