Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Boorstin, Daniel J.

Best Quotes about Fame

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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)

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

Madonna

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Miller, Henry

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

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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 is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

29.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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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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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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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

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

Davis, Bette

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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.