Motivational Quotes

Fame

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Alexander The Great

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

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

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

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

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Hazlitt, William

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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)

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Dave Kellett

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

Davis, Bette

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Villiers, George