Motivational Quotes

Fame

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Fame

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

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

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

Davis, Miles

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

Benjamin Haydon

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Cato The Elder

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Davis, Bette

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

29.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

46.

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

Johnson, Don

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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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