Motivational Quotes

Fame

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

- Bono, Edward De

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Hellman, Lillian

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Pound, Ezra

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

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

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

Villiers, George

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

Blake, William

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

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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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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)

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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

Dave Kellett

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

Chuang-tzu

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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 want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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