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

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

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)

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Laura Preble

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

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.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

10.

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

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

18.

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

19.

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

Alexander The Great

20.

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

Pound, Ezra

21.

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

Blake, William

23.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

24.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

25.

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

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I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

28.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

29.

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

30.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

33.

A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

38.

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

Cato The Elder

39.

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

Hellman, Lillian

40.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

41.

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

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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

43.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

46.

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

Hazlitt, William

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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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