Motivational Quotes

Fame

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

- Bono, Edward De

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hellman, Lillian

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

10.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

11.

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

Dave Kellett

13.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Blake, William

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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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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

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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

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Voltaire

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Madonna

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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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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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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

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

Chuang-tzu

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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

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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Baum, Vicki

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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

43.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur