Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fame

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

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

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

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Alexander The Great

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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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

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Davis, Bette

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dave Kellett

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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