Motivational Quotes

Fame

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

William Shakespeare

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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

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

Davis, Bette

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Blake, William

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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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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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The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Laura Preble

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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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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

44.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Johnson, Don