Motivational Quotes

Fame

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

- Rosie O'Donnell

Best Quotes about 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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

Benjamin Haydon

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

11.

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

Blake, William

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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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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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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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

21.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

24.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Capote, Truman

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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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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

34.

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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May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Davis, Bette

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sade, Marquis De

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