Motivational Quotes

Fame

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

- Johnson, Don

Best Quotes about Fame

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alda, Alan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Capote, Truman

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

Proverb, Chinese

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

10.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

11.

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?

Keats, John

12.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

13.

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

14.

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

15.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

16.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

17.

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

18.

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

Madonna

19.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

25.

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

Auden, W. H.

26.

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)

27.

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Dave Kellett

28.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

29.

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

30.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

35.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

36.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

37.

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

Sade, Marquis De

38.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

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

Hellman, Lillian

40.

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

41.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

43.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

44.

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.

45.

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Blake, William

46.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

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

48.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

49.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.