Motivational Quotes

Fame

To many fame comes too late.

- Camoens, Luis De

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

10.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Cato The Elder

14.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

20.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

23.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

24.

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

Capote, Truman

25.

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

Davis, Miles

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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'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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

29.

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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Huxley, Aldous

32.

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.

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

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

Dave Kellett

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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

35.

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

Wolcot, John

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

Blake, William

38.

The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Warhol, Andy

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Crockett, Davy

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

49.

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

50.

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

Alexander The Great