Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Hellman, Lillian

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Alexander The Great

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Voltaire

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

Dave Kellett

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Davis, Miles

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

11.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Madonna

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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Blake, William