Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Pound, Ezra

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Capote, Truman

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Chuang-tzu

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Davis, Bette

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Johnson, Don

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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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We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius