Motivational Quotes

Fame

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Fame

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Cato The Elder

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

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

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

Blake, William

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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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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

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Wolcot, John

19.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Davis, Bette

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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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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

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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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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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

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

Johnson, Don

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Voltaire

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

William Shakespeare

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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