Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Fame

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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

Blake, William

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Pope, Alexander

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)

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Rivarol, Antoine

16.

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

23.

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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To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

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

28.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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, 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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It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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

37.

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

Wolcot, John

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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

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Dave Kellett

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

Alexander The Great

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

Chuang-tzu

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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 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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.