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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
Fame Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Fame

1.
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

2.
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

3.
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.
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

5.
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
Nabokov, Vladimir

6.
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
Cioran, E. M.

7.
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)

8.
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

9.
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
Cato The Elder

10.
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

11.
Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
Johnson, Don

12.
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
Benjamin Haydon

13.
You can't choose what you're famous for in life.
Dave Kellett

14.
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

15.
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

16.
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

17.
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

18.
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
Chuang-tzu

19.
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.
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

21.
Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.
Villiers, George

22.
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.
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

24.
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

25.
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.
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

27.
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

28.
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
Hazlitt, William

29.
Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
Thoreau, Henry David

30.
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
Sade, Marquis De

31.
I had it all and blew it.
Mantle, Mickey

32.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Baum, Vicki

33.
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.

34.
Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.
Proverb, French

35.
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
Lessing, Doris

36.
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

37.
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

38.
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

39.
A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
Nicholson, Jack

40.
'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!
Pound, Ezra

41.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
Voltaire

42.
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.

43.
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

44.
Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.
What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!
Wolcot, John

46.
Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.
Capote, Truman

47.
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

48.
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

49.
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

50.
Popularity? It is glory's small change.
Victor Hugo


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