Motivational Quotes

Fame

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

- Mills, C. Wright

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Rivarol, Antoine

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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)

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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 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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Madonna

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

Sade, Marquis De

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pound, Ezra

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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.

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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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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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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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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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 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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Capote, Truman

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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 something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur