Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Alexander The Great

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Capote, Truman

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Ellinger, Jules

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

10.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

11.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

12.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Voltaire

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

20.

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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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

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

Blake, William

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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

29.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Wolcot, John

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

Cato The Elder

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

40.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

44.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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 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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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