Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Fame

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Voltaire

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Dave Kellett

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

Sewell, Thomas

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Benjamin Haydon

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

Pound, Ezra

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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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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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

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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.