Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Johnson, Don

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

Ellinger, Jules

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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)

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Blake, William

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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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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

12.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

13.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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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 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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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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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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

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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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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

32.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

33.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

34.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

38.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis 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 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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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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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 majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Davis, Bette

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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