Motivational Quotes

Fame

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)

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

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

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Pope, Alexander

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

11.

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

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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Rivarol, Antoine

25.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Blake, William

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Madonna

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I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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 love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Hazlitt, William

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Johnson, Don

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Hazlitt, William

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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