Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

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

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Dave Kellett

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Johnson, Don

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

Laura Preble

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

Warhol, Andy

11.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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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

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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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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

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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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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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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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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