Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Laura Preble

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Blake, William

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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

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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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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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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hazlitt, William

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Mills, C. Wright

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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Dave Kellett

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Davis, Miles

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

Madonna

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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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