Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Davis, Miles

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

Chuang-tzu

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.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

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

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

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

Capote, Truman

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

Cato The Elder

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Shakespeare, William

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Madonna

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

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Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Blake, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Huxley, Aldous

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