Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Hellman, Lillian

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Cato The Elder

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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.

Dante Alighieri

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Hazlitt, William

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Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte 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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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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

Laura Preble

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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 difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Dave Kellett

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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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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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