Motivational Quotes

Fame

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

- Chuang-tzu

Best Quotes about Fame

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

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

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

12.

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

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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Johnson, Don

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Davis, Bette

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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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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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Dave Kellett

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu