Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Mills, C. Wright

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Miller, Henry

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Wolcot, John

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Rivarol, Antoine

30.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Cato The Elder

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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

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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

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

35.

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

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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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

49.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack