Motivational Quotes

Fame

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

- Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Davis, Miles

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Wolcot, John

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

Chuang-tzu

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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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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Davis, Bette

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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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.

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Johnson, Don

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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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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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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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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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