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

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Blake, William

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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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.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

23.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

29.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

30.

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

Alexander The Great

31.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

43.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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.