Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Pope, Alexander

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

William Shakespeare

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

Blake, William

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Voltaire

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Davis, Bette

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Cato The Elder

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.

Virgil

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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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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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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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 thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fame is a constant effort