Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Sade, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Laura Preble

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Sewell, Thomas

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

11.

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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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 a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

14.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

15.

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

16.

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

Johnson, Don

17.

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

Cato The Elder

18.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Wolcot, John

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

Capote, Truman

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

27.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

28.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

29.

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

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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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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

32.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

35.

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

Chuang-tzu

36.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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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 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

40.

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

Huxley, Aldous

41.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rivarol, Antoine

44.

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

45.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

46.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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

48.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

49.

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

50.

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