Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Erasmus, Desiderius

Best Quotes about Fame

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Caussin, Nicolas

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Warhol, Andy

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

11.

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

Alexander The Great

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

20.

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

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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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I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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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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

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Sade, Marquis De

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Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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)

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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.