Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wolcot, John

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

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

Chuang-tzu

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Davis, Miles

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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

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Updike, John

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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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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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

28.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Benjamin Haydon

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte 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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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Blake, William

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There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

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Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Laura Preble

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.