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

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Alexander The Great

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

10.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

11.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

16.

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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What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

18.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

19.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

20.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

22.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

30.

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

31.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

37.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davis, Miles

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Auden, W. H.