Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Alexander The Great

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

Blake, William

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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

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Huxley, Aldous

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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 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 become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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