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

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Davis, Bette

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Voltaire

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Villiers, George

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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

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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Hazlitt, William

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Dave Kellett

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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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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)

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Wolcot, John

33.

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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Madonna

36.

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

37.

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

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

39.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

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

Cato The Elder

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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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