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

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

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

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

Dave Kellett

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

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Blake, William

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

16.

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

17.

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

Chuang-tzu

18.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

19.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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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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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.

24.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

25.

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

26.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

27.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

28.

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

29.

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

Wolcot, John

30.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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

32.

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

33.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

34.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Rivarol, Antoine

40.

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

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

Johnson, Don

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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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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

45.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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.