Motivational Quotes

Fame

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

- Sewell, Thomas

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Blake, William

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

Wolcot, John

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

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

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Voltaire

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

Dave Kellett

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

Warhol, Andy

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Mills, C. Wright

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

Johnson, Don

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Madonna

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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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Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

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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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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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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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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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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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

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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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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

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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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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.