Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Capote, Truman

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Sewell, 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

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

12.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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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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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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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

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Laura Preble

29.

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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Wolcot, John

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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 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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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