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

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

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

Dave Kellett

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

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

12.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

13.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

14.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

15.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

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

Johnson, Don

18.

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

19.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

20.

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

23.

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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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

25.

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

26.

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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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

28.

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

29.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

30.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

31.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

33.

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

34.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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

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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

38.

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

Huxley, Aldous

39.

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

40.

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

Blake, William

41.

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

Villiers, George

42.

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

Sade, Marquis De

43.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Chuang-tzu

45.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

46.

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

Cato The Elder

47.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

48.

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

Alexander The Great

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