Motivational Quotes

Fame

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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Best Quotes about Fame

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

Davis, Miles

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

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

Benjamin Haydon

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

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

Madonna

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Capote, Truman

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Voltaire

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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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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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Cato The Elder

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Alexander The Great

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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

49.

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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy