Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Villiers, George

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Johnson, Don

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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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

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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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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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dave Kellett

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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

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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

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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