I think the real heroes of the world, in a lot of ways, never
are discovered in a famous sort of way. They’re doing little things all the time that nobody ever
really notices. The people out there that are making the world a better place, protecting children, those,
to me, are heroes.
— Joe Polish
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
— W. H. Auden
Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate.
— Emily Dickinson
Money, achievement, fame, and success are important, but they are bought too dearly
when acquired at the cost of health.
— Unknown wise person
Fame has nothing to do with creativity
. Most famous people are not creative and most creative people will never become famous.
— Dave Erhard
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good,
then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long.
— Steve Jobs
Helping others to fulfill their mission is the kind of legacy
I want to leave behind.
— Shamala Tan
Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy
— from Career Success Without a Real Job
If you have a success, you have it
for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
— Ernest Hemingway
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
— Amelia Earhart
You're not a star until they can spell your
name in Karachi.
— Humphrey Bogart
There are only three American names that are known in every corner of the
globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola and Elizabeth Arden.
— Elizabeth Arden
Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you;
do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.
— Eileen Caddy
I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
— Katherine Hepburn
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an
international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
— George Bernard Shaw
No man has achieved true greatness who can count his enemies on his fingers.
— Unknown wise person
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many
bad artists are unable to give it up.
— Cyril Connolly
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
— E. M. Cioran
Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it
depends on never being found out.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
It's better to be wanted for murder than not to be wanted at all.
— Marty Winch
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become
uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
— Dr. O. A. Battista
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.
— Lord Byron
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
— George S. Patton
The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental
imprisonment.
— Robert J. Ringer
Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.
— Brooks Atkinson
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark.
Like celery.
— Aldous Huxley
I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to
monetize obscurity, I will be rich.
— Ernie Zelinski
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself
immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house
before I die.
— Bill Cosby
Hold on boss, I'm gonna make you famous!
— Freddy B.
Strive for originality in thought and action.
Be first;
Be different;
And be daring.
Only then will you make a significant difference in this world.
You may even attain greatness.
— from Life's Secret Handbook
They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity A$$holes.
— Steve Martin
Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but
because they are unknown.
— Nicolas de Chamfort
Fame is but the breath of the peope, and that is often unwholesome.
— Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.
— from Messiah's Handbook by Richard Bach
God makes stars. I just produce them.
— Samuel Goldwyn
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always hae had a low standard of it in his mind.
— William Hazlitt
Fame is chiefly a matter of dying at the
right time.
— Unknown wise person
If you want an audience, start a fight.
— Gaelic proverb
If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.
— Thomas Carlyle
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.
— Jean Rostand
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
— Charles—Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without
ability.
— George Bernard Shaw
If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
— Ambrose Bierce
Regardless of how much you enjoy your work, you must accept that
everything won't come easily.
No one has clear sailing on their voyage to success.
You will always meet obstacles to overcome.
The attainment of real success isn't based on the absence of problems, but the extraordinary ability to
deal with problems.
Indeed, you will find greatest satisfaction in overcoming the toughest of problems thrown your way.
And only by overcoming great difficulties can you achieve greatness in this world.
— from Life's Secret Handbook
It is a mark of many famous people that they
cannot part with their brightest hour.
— Lillian Hellman
People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
— Jerry Lewis
It is easier for a needle to go through a camel's eye than
for a rich woman to sprain her ankle and keep it out of the papers.
— Mark Twain
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.
— Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont (1846—70), French author, poet.
You do not exist to impress the world. You exist to live your life in a
way that will make you happy.
— Richard Bach, Illusions:
The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Now there is fame! Of all — hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public— fame is by far the
worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
— Pablo Picasso
If you think you are important, just remember that a lot of famous men of
a century ago have weeds growing over their graves today.
— Unknown wise person
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.
— C. Wright Mills
The nice thing about being a celebrity it that, if you bore people, they
think it's their fault.
— Henry Kissinger
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.
— Philip Roth
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't
know.
— H. L. Mencken
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!
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
If someone types in your name on Google and you don’t show up, you have a
problem.
— Scott Ginsberg
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking
about him, ain't listening.
— Marlo Brando
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the
hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
— C. Wright Mills
Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define
themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in
a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.
— Henry A. Kissinger
It is better for one's reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed
unconventionally.
— John Maynard Keynes
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and
he asked for my autograph.
— Shirley Temple Black
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth . . . suicide is much
easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
— Julie Burchill
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
— Miles Davis (1926-91), U.S. jazz musician.
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
— Donald Trump
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
overanimation. One can either see or be seen.
— John Updike
The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your
heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will
never even catch cold.
— Lord Byron
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.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional.
— Mark Sanborn
It's not who you know, it's who knows you.
— Marcela Landres
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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?
— John Keats
An expert is a man from another city; the farther away the city, the greater the expert.
— Unknown wise person
A man is known by the company he organizes.
— Ambrose Bierce
Behind every famous man there's a woman — telling him he's not so hot.
— Not-so-famous wise person
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in
those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
— Joseph Conrad
When a person starts to rest on his laurels, he discovers they are poison ivy.
— Unknown wise person
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own
legend or not.
—Isabel Allende
One can always tell a truly great man by the fact that at least ten thousand persons went to school with
him in the small town where he grew up.
— Not-so-famous wise person
There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.
— Elizabeth Arden
No one ever traveled the road to fame on a free pass.
— Unknown wise person
There is no good . . . in living in a society where you are merely the
equal of everybody else. . . . The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Many a man thinks he has become famous when he merely happened to meet an editor who was hard-up for
material.
— Not-so-famous wise person
Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Some men's names appear in the paper only three times: when they're too young to read, when they're too
dazed to read, and when they're too dead to read.
— Unknown wise person
While some people rise to the pinnacle of fame, others reach the height of
folly.
— Not-so-famous wise person
To desire immortality is to desire the perpetuation of a great mistake.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
