Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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.

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

Johnson, Don

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

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Proverb, Chinese

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

12.

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

Huxley, Aldous

13.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

14.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

15.

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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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 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

18.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

25.

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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Blake, William

30.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

32.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

34.

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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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

36.

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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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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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

40.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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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 something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 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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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)

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

Dave Kellett

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius