Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

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

Davis, Miles

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Benjamin Haydon

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

13.

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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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

15.

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

Mills, C. Wright

17.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

19.

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

20.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

21.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Blake, William

25.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

26.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.

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

Pound, Ezra

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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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

34.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

36.

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

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

Johnson, Don

38.

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

39.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

40.

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

Baum, Vicki

41.

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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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 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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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

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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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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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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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir