Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Fame

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Blake, William

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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

15.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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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

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

24.

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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Chuang-tzu

27.

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

28.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Baum, Vicki

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Hellman, Lillian

32.

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

Wolcot, John

33.

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

Alexander The Great

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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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

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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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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sade, Marquis De