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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Benjamin Haydon

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Hellman, Lillian

15.

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

Alexander The Great

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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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Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

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

Rosie O'Donnell

21.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

23.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

25.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

26.

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

Dave Kellett

27.

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

28.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

31.

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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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

38.

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

Sade, Marquis De

39.

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

40.

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

Voltaire

42.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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

44.

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

Mills, C. Wright

45.

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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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

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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.