Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fame

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Capote, Truman

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

10.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

11.

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

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Blake, William

14.

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

Voltaire

15.

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

Pound, Ezra

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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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'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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

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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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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

27.

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

Sade, Marquis De

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Johnson, Don

38.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

44.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

45.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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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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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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.

49.

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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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.