Motivational Quotes

Fame

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Fame

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.

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

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Hazlitt, William

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis 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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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Updike, John

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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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 hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Dave Kellett

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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