Motivational Quotes

Fame

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Shakespeare, William

The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Madonna

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Alexander The Great

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

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Davis, Miles

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

Sade, Marquis De

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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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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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 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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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 short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Pound, Ezra

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Blake, 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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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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I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

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

Johnson, Don

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Acquaintance lessens fame.