Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Fame

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 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

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Ellinger, Jules

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cato The Elder

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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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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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

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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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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Dave Kellett

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Blake, William

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

Davis, Bette

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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

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

Warhol, Andy

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

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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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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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It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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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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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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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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