Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Alexander The Great

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

10.

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

11.

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

12.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

13.

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

14.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

15.

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

16.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

18.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

19.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

23.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

25.

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

26.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

27.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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

32.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

Davis, Miles

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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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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

41.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

42.

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

43.

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

Cato The Elder

44.

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

Auden, W. H.

45.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

46.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

49.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Capote, Truman