Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Davis, Miles

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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.

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

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Voltaire

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hazlitt, 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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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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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

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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

39.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sewell, Thomas

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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