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

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

Davis, Bette

10.

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

11.

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

Sewell, Thomas

12.

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

Blake, William

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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

14.

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

15.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

17.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

19.

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

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

21.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

22.

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

Davis, Miles

23.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

24.

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.

25.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

26.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

27.

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

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

31.

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

Pope, Alexander

32.

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

Warhol, Andy

33.

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

34.

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

Capote, Truman

35.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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

37.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

38.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

42.

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

Laura Preble

43.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

44.

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

Cato The Elder

45.

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

Baum, Vicki

47.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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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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