Motivational Quotes

Fame

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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

Huxley, Aldous

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Villiers, George

11.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

13.

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

Blake, William

14.

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

Ellinger, Jules

15.

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

Carver, George Washington

16.

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

17.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

18.

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

19.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

20.

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

21.

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

22.

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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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

24.

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

Baum, Vicki

25.

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

Johnson, Don

26.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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.

28.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

29.

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)

30.

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

31.

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

Chuang-tzu

32.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

33.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

34.

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

35.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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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What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

40.

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

Alexander The Great

41.

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

Voltaire

42.

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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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

44.

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

45.

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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Fame is the thirst of youth.