Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Villiers, George

10.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

13.

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

Dave Kellett

14.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Cato The Elder

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To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Chuang-tzu

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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

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

Hellman, Lillian

30.

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Johnson, Don

33.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

34.

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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Madonna

38.

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

39.

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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