Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Fame

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Davis, Miles

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

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

10.

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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

14.

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

15.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

18.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

19.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

20.

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

Madonna

21.

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

Johnson, Don

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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

23.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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

31.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

32.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

33.

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

Chuang-tzu

34.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

36.

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 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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

40.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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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

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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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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

44.

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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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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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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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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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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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.