Motivational Quotes

Fame

Popular applause veers with the wind.

- Bright, John

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Alexander The Great

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Wolcot, John

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.

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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Hazlitt, William

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 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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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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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 hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Johnson, Don

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Davis, Bette

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

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

Laura Preble

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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