Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Best Quotes about Fame

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Hazlitt, William

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

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

Benjamin Haydon

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hazlitt, William

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

11.

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Blake, William

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

Wolcot, John

18.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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.

David Nicholls

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

Madonna

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

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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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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Dave Kellett

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

31.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

32.

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

33.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Alexander The Great

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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

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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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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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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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

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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