Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Laura Preble

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Madonna

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Johnson, Don

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Byron, Lord

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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.