Motivational Quotes

Fame

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

- Carver, George Washington

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Alexander The Great

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

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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.

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

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

12.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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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

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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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Madonna

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Dave Kellett

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

Rivarol, Antoine