Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Cato The Elder

11.

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

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

Carver, George Washington

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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

16.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

22.

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

Blake, William

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

Davis, Miles

25.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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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

32.

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

Alexander The Great

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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

42.

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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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