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, 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

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Chuang-tzu

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

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.

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

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

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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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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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 constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Davis, Bette

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Madonna

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Voltaire

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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