Quotes About Success Celebrity

#1. Watch out for those who celebrate your success with bitterness in their hearts! surely, they'll hail you for what you are, and hate you for what you have become.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#2. That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

Lupe Fiasco

#3. I will permit no man to narrow & degrade my sould by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington

#4. Our culture has become so obsessed with celebrity that it's easy to confuse fame with success. They are not the same thing.

Daniel Rodriguez

#5. The Roman form of serenade is to race a motorcycle motor under the girl's window, but mufflers are not common in any situation; the only things as dearly loved as a good noise are breakneck speed and eye-splitting lights, preferably neon - all expressions of well-being, like a huge belly-laugh.

Eleanor Clark

#6. What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.'

James Belushi

#7. Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least "deserving" in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.

Philip Yancey

#8. Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.

Colin R. Davis

#9. It is classical music, and is considered the best and most puzzling ever manufactured. You're supposed to like it, whether you do or not, and if you don't, the proper thing is to look as if you did. Understand?

L. Frank Baum

#10. I also drink Scotch. But I'm not picky. I'll take the victory Scotch, or the Scotch of defeat. Or the rotgut swill.

Rob Thomas

#11. Thus we find the source of our new multiple murderer primarily among the ambitious who failed - or who believed they would fail - and who seek another form of success in the universal celebrity and attention they will receive through their extravagant homicides.

Elliott Leyton

#12. When I go into rehearsal rooms and meet with bands, they're genuinely excited to be with me because of what I've done as an artist, not because of anything else. There's that whole celebrity rock star thing, and artists are into artists who have been able to achieve success their way.

Nikki Sixx

#13. I secured a doughnut and coffee. I checked with Karrin and Valmont. Neither wanted to save the doughnuts from Nicodemus's corruptive influence. Not everyone can be a crusader like me.

Jim Butcher

#14. Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.

Shawn Achor

#15. Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

Douglas Kennedy

#16. In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Paulo Coelho

#17. Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.

Jack Gleeson

#18. But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.

Johnny Mathis

#19. Those who do not appreciate the value of time are celebrity failures. Success is time management.

Moutasem Algharati

#20. We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

Derrick A. Bell

#21. The eidolons started pounding on the door.
'Who is it?' Leo called.
'Valdez!'
'Valdez who?

Rick Riordan

#22. I can't imagine Hunger Games, even with its very popular books, being nearly a success that it's been without Jen Lawrence being the perfect person to play that role - a very modern celebrity, a very down-to-earth, accessible, celebrity.

Nina Jacobson

#23. Left with nothing but my own bloody fingertips, I let out a war cry of my own, raked my nails over its face, and fought like a girl.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#24. If success could heal, why do so many celebrity marriages end in divorce and celebrated artists wind up in rehab or the morgue? Why do people with a firm grip on the world's tail take their own lives or pursue suicidally risky behaviors?

Peter Coyote

#25. I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

Steve Coogan

#26. Success is too often measured by the size of one's bank account or the degree of their celebrity. Yet, neither can truly represent the size of one's character or the depth of their soul.

Charles F. Glassman

#27. I don't think that voters should be fixated on public policy. In a healthy republic, they wouldn't have to worry every waking hour about what their government is doing.

David Harsanyi

#28. I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

Dorothy Allison

#29. Lewa, mystery-king of know-nothingness. That's me!

Catherine Hapka

#30. A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Mitchell Zuckoff