Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Hazlitt, William

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.

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

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

12.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

16.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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

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

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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

21.

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Voltaire

27.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

28.

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

Mills, C. Wright

29.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

30.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

31.

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

Johnson, Don

32.

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

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

Alexander The Great

39.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

40.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

44.

Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

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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

46.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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