Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Mills, C. Wright

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.

Virgil

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Chuang-tzu

20.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

21.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

22.

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

Davis, Miles

27.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

28.

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

Hellman, Lillian

30.

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

31.

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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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

33.

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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There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

35.

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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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Updike, John

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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)

40.

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

Warhol, Andy

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Huxley, Aldous

43.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

44.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

45.

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

46.

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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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

48.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

49.

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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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