Motivational Quotes

Fame

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.

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

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

Johnson, Don

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 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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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, 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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Cato The Elder

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Baum, Vicki

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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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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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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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Chuang-tzu

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Blake, William

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.