Motivational Quotes

Fame

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

- Bono, Edward De

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

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

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

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

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)

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

Capote, Truman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Parkinson, Cecil

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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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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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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.

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Voltaire

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

Auden, W. H.

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

18.

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

Madonna

19.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

28.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

30.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

34.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Davis, Bette

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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

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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

49.

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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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