Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Fame

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Blake, William

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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)

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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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

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

12.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

13.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

17.

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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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

19.

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

20.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

21.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

25.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

26.

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

Sade, Marquis De

27.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Don

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

46.

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

Wolcot, John

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

Capote, Truman

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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.