Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Alexander The Great

Best Quotes about Fame

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

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

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Blake, William

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Laura Preble

42.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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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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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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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 fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De