Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Laura Preble

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

Wolcot, John

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Capote, Truman

10.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

11.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

12.

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

Alexander The Great

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

16.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

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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

24.

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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

45.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Cato The Elder

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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