Motivational Quotes

Fame

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Fame

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

18.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

19.

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

Capote, Truman

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

28.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

29.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Wolcot, John

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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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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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 want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De