Motivational Quotes

Fame

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

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

Proverb, Chinese

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Pound, Ezra

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

10.

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

12.

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.

13.

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

Cato The Elder

14.

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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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

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

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

19.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Chuang-tzu

21.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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

24.

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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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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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

28.

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

29.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

30.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

33.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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

Johnson, Don

38.

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

Wolcot, John

39.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

40.

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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

44.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.