Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Davis, Miles

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

Johnson, Don

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

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

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

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

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Alexander The Great

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Huxley, Aldous

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Hazlitt, William

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

Auden, W. H.

23.

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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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Voltaire

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

Wolcot, John

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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

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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

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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I had it all and blew it.