Motivational Quotes

Fame

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

- Bono, Edward De

Best Quotes about Fame

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Blake, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

11.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Capote, Truman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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

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

Davis, Bette

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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!

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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)