Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Madonna

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

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

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

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

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

10.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

11.

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

12.

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

Mills, C. Wright

13.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

14.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

15.

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

Alexander The Great

16.

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

17.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

18.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

19.

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

20.

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

Davis, Bette

21.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

22.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

23.

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

24.

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

25.

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

26.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

27.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

29.

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

30.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

31.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

Carver, George Washington

33.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

34.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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

36.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Blake, William

39.

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.

40.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Pound, Ezra

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Dave Kellett

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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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