Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Alexander The Great

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

18.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Capote, Truman

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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 is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Sade, Marquis De

28.

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

Cato The Elder

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

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When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Auden, W. H.