Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

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

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chuang-tzu

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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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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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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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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

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Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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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

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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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

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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 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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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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 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

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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