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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Parkinson, Cecil

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Blake, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

10.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

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

Hazlitt, William

12.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

13.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

19.

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

20.

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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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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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

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Johnson, Don

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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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I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

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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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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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

36.

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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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

39.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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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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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.