Motivational Quotes

Fame

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Fame

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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

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

Dave Kellett

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Mills, C. Wright

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

Davis, Bette

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Laura Preble

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

10.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

11.

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

Cato The Elder

12.

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

13.

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

14.

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

Blake, William

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

Auden, W. H.

16.

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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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

18.

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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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

21.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

22.

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 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)

24.

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

Johnson, Don

25.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

26.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

27.

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

Alexander The Great

28.

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

29.

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

Huxley, Aldous

30.

The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

34.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

35.

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

36.

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

Wolcot, John

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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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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

41.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques