Motivational Quotes

Fame

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Alexander The Great

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

Sewell, Thomas

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Madonna

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

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

Voltaire

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.