Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

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

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

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

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

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

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

10.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Voltaire

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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

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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

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

29.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Dave Kellett

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 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 wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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