Motivational Quotes

Fame

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Alexander The Great

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Sewell, Thomas

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

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

10.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

11.

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

12.

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

Warhol, Andy

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

15.

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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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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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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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

19.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

25.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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

30.

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

Dave Kellett

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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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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 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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

41.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Blake, William

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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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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 will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Parkinson, Cecil