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

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Warhol, Andy

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

10.

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

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

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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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Updike, John

15.

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

16.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

19.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

20.

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

Alexander The Great

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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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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Dave Kellett

25.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Johnson, Don

28.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

29.

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rivarol, Antoine

33.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.

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

Laura Preble

35.

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

36.

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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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)

38.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

39.

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

40.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

41.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

42.

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

Wolcot, John

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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.