Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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

11.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

17.

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

21.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

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

Dave Kellett

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

25.

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

Sade, Marquis De

26.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

27.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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

30.

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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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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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

33.

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

34.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

35.

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

36.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

37.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

38.

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

Ellinger, Jules

39.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

40.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

42.

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

Capote, Truman

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Davis, Bette

48.

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

Warhol, Andy

49.

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