Motivational Quotes

Fame

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dave Kellett

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

10.

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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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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

Madonna

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Carver, George Washington

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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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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

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Sade, Marquis De

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