Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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)

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Updike, John

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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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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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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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There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Capote, Truman

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

Hazlitt, William

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Mills, C. Wright

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

Johnson, Don

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Madonna

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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 the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Laura Preble

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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

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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