Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Blake, William

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

Dave Kellett

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Alexander The Great

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Villiers, George

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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.