Motivational Quotes

Fame

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Don

A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

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

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

10.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

11.

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

Blake, William

12.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

13.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

14.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

Warhol, Andy

17.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

23.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

24.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

25.

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

26.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

27.

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

28.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

29.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

30.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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 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

33.

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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The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

35.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

36.

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

37.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

38.

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

39.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

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

Davis, Bette

41.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

42.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Updike, John

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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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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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Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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I want to be famous everywhere.