Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Boorstin, Daniel J.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Pope, Alexander

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Updike, John

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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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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

Davis, Bette

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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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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

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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

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Dave Kellett

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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

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Blake, William

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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Sewell, Thomas

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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 want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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, 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

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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