Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Ellinger, Jules

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Cato The Elder

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Madonna

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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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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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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

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

Alexander The Great

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Dave Kellett

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Wolcot, John

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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

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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 who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu