Motivational Quotes

Fame

Fame is the thirst of youth.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Rivarol, Antoine

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alda, Alan

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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

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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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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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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 want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Don

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Voltaire

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Capote, Truman

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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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 was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Cato The Elder

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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.