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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
- Martial, Marcus Valerius
Fame Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Fame

1.
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
William Shakespeare

2.
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)

3.
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

4.
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
Mills, C. Wright

5.
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

6.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Baum, Vicki

7.
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
Morrison, Van

8.
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
Davis, Bette

9.
To many fame comes too late.
Camoens, Luis De

10.
There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.
Ellinger, Jules

11.
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Dickinson, Emily

12.
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

13.
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.
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

15.
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

16.
Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.
Proverb, Chinese

17.
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

18.
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

19.
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

20.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Hellman, Lillian

21.
The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

22.
Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.
What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!
Wolcot, John

24.
I was the only one there I never heard of.
Farber, Barry J.

25.
Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.
Villiers, George

26.
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

27.
If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
Garland, Judy

28.
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
Vanderbilt, Gloria

29.
Fame is the thirst of youth.
Byron, Lord

30.
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

31.
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

32.
I had it all and blew it.
Mantle, Mickey

33.
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.
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

35.
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Martial, Marcus Valerius

36.
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Huxley, Aldous

37.
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

38.
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.
We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.
Sewell, Thomas

40.
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

41.
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

42.
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

43.
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

44.
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

45.
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

46.
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

47.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
Voltaire

48.
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

49.
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

50.
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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