Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Dave Kellett

11.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

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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

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Madonna

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Davis, Bette

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

Alexander The Great

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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

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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

Blake, William

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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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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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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.