Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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.

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

10.

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

Chuang-tzu

12.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Wolcot, John

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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

28.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

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

Capote, Truman

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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

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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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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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