Motivational Quotes

Fame

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

10.

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

Sewell, Thomas

11.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

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

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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)

14.

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

Huxley, Aldous

15.

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

Madonna

16.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

17.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

21.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

22.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

23.

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

24.

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

Baum, Vicki

25.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

26.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

Laura Preble

28.

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

Dave Kellett

29.

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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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

32.

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

Wolcot, John

33.

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

Davis, Miles

34.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

35.

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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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Warhol, Andy

38.

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

39.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

40.

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

Capote, Truman

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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

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

Parkinson, Cecil

46.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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