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

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

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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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

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

Chuang-tzu

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Johnson, Don

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

33.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Alexander The Great

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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.