Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

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

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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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

11.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

12.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

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Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Johnson, Don

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

17.

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

18.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

19.

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 proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

24.

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

Blake, William

25.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

26.

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Hazlitt, William

31.

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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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.

34.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

37.

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

Dave Kellett

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

44.

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

Voltaire

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.