Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Vanderbilt, Gloria

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

Alexander The Great

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Voltaire

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Dave Kellett

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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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

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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 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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, 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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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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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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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Proverb, Chinese

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