Motivational Quotes

Fame

To many fame comes too late.

- Camoens, Luis De

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johnson, Don

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

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

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

Voltaire

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

Warhol, Andy

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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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

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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Dave Kellett

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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 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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

35.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

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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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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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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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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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

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