Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

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

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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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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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 a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Madonna

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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 but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

24.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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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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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Dave Kellett

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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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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

40.

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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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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

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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