Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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

Sewell, Thomas

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

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

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

Alexander The Great

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

Franklin, Benjamin

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

10.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

12.

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

Dave Kellett

13.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Pound, Ezra

18.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

21.

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

Davis, Bette

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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

Caussin, Nicolas

25.

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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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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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

28.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Capote, Truman

30.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

31.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

32.

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

Hellman, Lillian

33.

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

Chuang-tzu

34.

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

Sade, Marquis De

35.

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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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

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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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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

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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

40.

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

Carver, George Washington

41.

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

42.

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

Voltaire

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Byron, Lord