Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Ellinger, Jules

Best Quotes about Fame

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Shakespeare, William

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Dave Kellett

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

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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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

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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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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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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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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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Johnson, Don

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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

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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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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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

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

Blake, William

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Warhol, Andy

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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 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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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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