Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Madonna

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

2.

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

Johnson, Don

3.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

4.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

5.

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

6.

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

Hellman, Lillian

7.

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

Chuang-tzu

8.

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

9.

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

Benjamin Haydon

10.

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

11.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

12.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

13.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

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

Huxley, Aldous

15.

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

16.

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..

Rostand, Jean

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

19.

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

Davis, Miles

20.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

21.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

24.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

25.

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

26.

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!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

27.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

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

Sade, Marquis De

29.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

31.

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

32.

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

33.

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

Auden, W. H.

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

40.

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