Motivational Quotes

Fame

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

- Davis, Miles

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

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

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 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)

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

14.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

15.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

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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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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 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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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

21.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

22.

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

23.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

24.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

25.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Updike, John

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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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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

32.

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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Warhol, Andy

37.

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

38.

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

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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

40.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

41.

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

Chuang-tzu

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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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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

45.

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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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

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

Mills, C. Wright

49.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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