Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fame

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

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Alexander The Great

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

Benjamin Haydon

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Shakespeare, William

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

10.

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

Johnson, Don

11.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

19.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

20.

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

Davis, Bette

21.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Madonna

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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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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 but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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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

47.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De