Motivational Quotes

Fame

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

- Villiers, George

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Alexander The Great

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

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

Madonna

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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

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.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Voltaire

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

Auden, W. H.

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

19.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Johnson, Don

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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 an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Miller, Henry

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sade, Marquis 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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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 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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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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When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

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

Chuang-tzu

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Blake, William

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.