Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Ellinger, Jules

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Sade, Marquis De

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Johnson, Don

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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)

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Alexander The Great

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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

Wolcot, John

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Voltaire

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Ellinger, Jules

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Auden, W. H.

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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