Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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 something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

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

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Warhol, Andy

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Wolcot, 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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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