Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Davis, Miles

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Caussin, Nicolas

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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

Pound, Ezra

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Proverb, Chinese

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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Sade, Marquis De

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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Blake, William

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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

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

Baum, Vicki

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If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

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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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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.

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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 a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.