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

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

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Johnson, Don

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Mills, C. Wright

12.

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

13.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Madonna

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

18.

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

Pope, Alexander

19.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Dave Kellett

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Pound, Ezra

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Alexander The Great

33.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

34.

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

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

41.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Blake, William