Motivational Quotes

Fame

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Shakespeare, 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

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

13.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Blake, William

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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Sade, Marquis De

19.

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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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Rivarol, Antoine

22.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

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Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Johnson, Don

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I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

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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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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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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)

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry 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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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

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

34.

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

35.

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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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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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

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Warhol, Andy

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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.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius