Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Nabokov, Vladimir

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Alexander The Great

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Ellinger, Jules

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

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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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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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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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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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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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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

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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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Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

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If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

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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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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Crockett, Davy

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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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Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Proverb, Chinese

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Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Auden, W. H.

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, 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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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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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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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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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.