Fame Quotes - Page 8

It is in vain to try and stop a star from rising, even with a ladder.

Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.

Missing what most of the time? The babbling faceless agora, the fame, the parties, the pop of flash bulbs? The lovers, the gaiety, the champagne? The solitude carved out of celebrity, poring over charts by a single lamp on a wide desk in a venerable hotel? Room service, coffee before dawn? The company of one friend, two? The choice: All of it or not? Some or none? Now, not now, maybe later?

A celebrity starts being a cele-crazy when he's seen often, he's just like the ordinary man in the streets. Without much ado to shout his name, i go my way.

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame.

I made my name”. What does this mean? It means a man has overcame the obstacles, hassles and roadblocks

Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.

For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men. Make them your examples, and, esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, do not weigh too nicely the perils of war."[Funeral Oration of Pericles]

Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.

So why was Kim Kardashian famous? Because she was very good at marketing herself, that was all - and today, that was enough. Corporations are now people and people are now products, known as "brands". At a time when the 1 percent was getting richer, the 99 percent was suddenly trying to Keep up with the Kardashians.

You do not attain success when you associate with those in high positions, It comes when you accept yourself and realize that only you can take yourself to where your heart truly lies.

...as if Hollywood were the name of the enchanted forest where you loose yourself and find yourself, again; the wood that changes you; the wood where you go mad; the wood where the shadows life longer than you do.

For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away.

Work neither for fame nor profit. An artist should aspire only to inspire.

You really want my honest opinion?” I ask.tAnton gestures for me to go on. “Please, this is why I hired you, devochka.”tI detect a little hint of sarcasm, but I go ahead and say, “I hate restaurants like this.”t“Why?” He seems genuinely curious to know why.t“Because—because they’re expensive.”t“What is the problem? I’m paying for everything.”tI shake my head. “It’s not that—you see,” I lower my voice, “ this is where famous people eat.”t“Famous?” Anton pretends to look around. “Where?”t“I think that’s the guy from that prank show. And there’s that guy from those vampire movies. And Maya Findlay.”t“Yeah? I don’t know who they are.”t“Really?” I ask dubiously.t“I’m not into the famous people thing too.”t“Really.”t“Yes.”t“Which is why you only date models who want to become actresses.” I notice him giving me a look. “Sorry,” I say sheepishly.

I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.

He might be famous (local newspaper or television) for finding it, true—but if fame takes away the thing it celebrates, then Sebastien would prefer the inspired silence. We’re all famous in our own hearts anyway.

I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.

I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind.

I seek to sensitize and clarify the essential elements of my soul. I will leave striving for the flags of fame and fortune behind and go where the soul beckons without fearing the decisive outcome. I will travel in a world without boundaries and embrace danger and awe. I will stand as a witness to comedy, beauty, and tragedy and apply the principles of artistic and ascetic forms of awareness to overcome the inherent frustration of enduring a fundamentally painful human existence.

You make a name for yourself when you take on responsibilities and constantly solve problems

He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?''No, I have not.''Well, well, such is fame!

David was "a star, the Elvis of the Bible." An unusually for such a rockstar with his lust for power, lust for women, lust for life, he had humility of one who knew his gift work harder than he ever would.

When everyone is famous, no one will be famous.

Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Reader's Digest world.

If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.

Anonymity beats fame. One cannot undo fame.

Many people define who they are, based upon what the world sees when it looks at them. They build themselves with their foundation set upon the perceptions of others. Do others think they are good, kind, smart, loving? But I define who I am, based upon the person who looks back at me in the mirror. If you were the only person on Earth, with nobody to see you, know your name, or ever be aware of your existence; what kind of person would you be? Live for the person who looks back at you in the mirror and be that person even if you are the last human being on Earth. Too many people live for what the world will think and will see; too few people live for their own soul. Are you smart, successful, got lots of super ideas? But those are not important questions. This is the most important question: do you know how to love? I do not care if nobody on Earth were to know my name; do I know my own soul? Do I know how to love? These are the questions I ask myself.

It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious they would be - given that we are all agreed that money and fame do not bring happiness. Instead the world would prefer to enjoy the idea, against what it knows to be true, that wealth and fame do in fact insulate and protect against misery and it would rather we shut up if we are planning to indicate otherwise.

A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was where the road had taken them before. Infidelity could be forgiven, but forgetting it was impossible. Strangely, that wasn't what bothered her the most. What bothered her was that she didn't really care.

Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

I want to hear one more of your storiesTangle up in your dreams, give up the fight‘Pour one more glass of that wineAnd I might not go home tonight...

For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who've had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be a sentence more damning than any prison term

Big things in the glory of the world mean nothing. Small things in glory of God mean everything. Truly..., size doesn't matter in this world or in the world to come.

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

Don’t just make a name for yourself on earth; let your name be written in the book of life in Heaven, the seat of the Sovereign God!

I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell! They ’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!

To achieve success, ignore doubt; fame, ignore haters; greatness, ignore fear; and immortality, ignore hardship.

Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that Image of yours will never be seen by commoners.

The world like an accomplished hostess pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.

Kingdom of God will surely come upon someone if glory of man leaves him

Self Importance is the worst sin a person can get into

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.

You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

Step out today not seeking to be in the spotlight but seeking for a spot to light - be a blessing to someone

It's not the game, Zee. It's the fame. Everyone wants to be affiliated with a winner.

If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God.

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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

I made my name”. What does this mean? It means you developed endurance, perseverance and will-to-win as a core part of your character

Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.

The American people are strange in their attitudes toward their idols," he (Taft) mused. They lead them on and then "cut their legs from under them," simply "to make their fall all the greater.

The presence of God is so important in the life of believers. There is abundance of all you need to make your life comfortable in His presence.

Fame turns out to be a powerful instrument of grace because it humbles its chosen victims in a hurry. You sail into it, your canvas swelled with grandiosity, and when your fifteen minutes are over and you are becalmed, you realize that grandiosity cannot take you where you need to go.Only then do you learn to row like hell, asking God for the strength to stay afloat.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.