Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Baum, Vicki

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

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

Carver, George Washington

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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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

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If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

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

Hellman, Lillian

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You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Dave Kellett

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Mills, C. Wright

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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

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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 a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De