Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Benjamin Haydon

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Voltaire

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

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

Pound, Ezra

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

22.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Blake, William

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Madonna

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

Dave Kellett

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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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To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cato The Elder

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.