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

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

12.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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 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 but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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

Cato The Elder

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Johnson, Don

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Auden, W. H.

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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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 proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Blake, 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.