Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Fame

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Carver, George Washington

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

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

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

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

Voltaire

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

12.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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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There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Alexander The Great

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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

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

Madonna

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Capote, Truman

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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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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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

33.

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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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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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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