Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Fame

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

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

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

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

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

11.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

12.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Wolcot, John

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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

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

25.

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

Warhol, Andy

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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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.

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

Davis, Bette

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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

32.

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

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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius