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

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

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

Johnson, Don

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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.

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

Wolcot, John

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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

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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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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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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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 something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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

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

Blake, William

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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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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Davis, Miles

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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

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The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Baum, Vicki