Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Best Quotes about Fame

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Davis, Bette

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Chuang-tzu

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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 thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Blake, William

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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

32.

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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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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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Auden, W. H.

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

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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

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When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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

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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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Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Warhol, Andy

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