Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Fame

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

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

Ellinger, Jules

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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

Chuang-tzu

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

10.

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

Pope, Alexander

11.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Dave Kellett

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

19.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Alexander The Great

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

30.

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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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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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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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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

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

Warhol, Andy

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