Motivational Quotes

Fame

Popular applause veers with the wind.

- Bright, John

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

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

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

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

Villiers, George

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

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

Laura Preble

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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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

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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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Alexander The Great

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

Davis, Bette

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

Warhol, Andy

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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sewell, Thomas

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Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Madonna

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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