Motivational Quotes

Fame

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.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Auden, W. H.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

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

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)

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

Blake, William

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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

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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

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

Cato The Elder

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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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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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Johnson, Don

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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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

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Madonna

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Dave Kellett

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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