Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Caussin, Nicolas

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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

Voltaire

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

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

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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

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To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

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

Cato The Elder

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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

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

Dave Kellett

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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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Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, 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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Blake, William

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Madonna

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.