Motivational Quotes

Fame

Fame is a constant effort

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Sewell, Thomas

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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

Pound, Ezra

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Johnson, Don

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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

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The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Warhol, Andy

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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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Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

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

Davis, Bette

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Cato The Elder

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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

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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

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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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.