Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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)

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Cato The Elder

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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.

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

Madonna

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

Wolcot, John

28.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

31.

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

Blake, William

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis 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.