Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Blake, William

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

Mills, C. Wright

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

Davis, Bette

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

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

Baum, Vicki

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Dave Kellett

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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

26.

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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Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Johnson, Don

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

Hazlitt, William

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Alexander The Great

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French