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

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Voltaire

The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Warhol, Andy

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

12.

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

Blake, William

13.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

21.

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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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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I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

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

Baum, Vicki

25.

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

26.

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

Wolcot, John

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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

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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

29.

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

Sade, Marquis De

30.

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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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