Motivational Quotes

Fame

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Davis, Bette

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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Mills, C. Wright

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Capote, Truman

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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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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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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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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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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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Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Picasso, Pablo

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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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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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

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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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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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