Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

2.

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

Blake, William

3.

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

Davis, Bette

4.

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

5.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

6.

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

Laura Preble

7.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

8.

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

Alexander The Great

9.

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

10.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

12.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

13.

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.

Alda, Alan

14.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Dave Kellett

18.

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

Madonna

19.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

20.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

21.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

22.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

23.

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

24.

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

Ellinger, Jules

25.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Voltaire

29.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

30.

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

31.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

33.

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

Auden, W. H.

34.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

35.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

36.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Pound, Ezra

39.

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

40.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

45.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

46.

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

47.

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

Villiers, George

48.

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

49.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

50.

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