Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Baum, Vicki

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

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

13.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

18.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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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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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Auden, W. H.

31.

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

Wolcot, John

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

Alexander The Great

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

Laura Preble

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

Sewell, Thomas

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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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

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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra