Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Fame

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)

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

Dave Kellett

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

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

Mills, C. Wright

11.

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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Baum, Vicki

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Davis, Bette

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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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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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To many fame comes too late.