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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Blake, William

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

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

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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Wolcot, John

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Davis, Bette

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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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 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

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Warhol, Andy

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Miller, Henry

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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