Motivational Quotes

Fame

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Warhol, Andy

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Madonna

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von