Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Madonna

Best Quotes about Fame

The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Warhol, Andy

I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Rosie O'Donnell

10.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

13.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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.

Picasso, Pablo

16.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

17.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

18.

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

19.

Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

20.

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

21.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

22.

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

Baum, Vicki

23.

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

24.

I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

25.

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

26.

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

27.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

28.

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

Madonna

29.

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

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

Huxley, Aldous

31.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

32.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

33.

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

34.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Cato The Elder

36.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

37.

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

Chuang-tzu

38.

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

Benjamin Haydon

39.

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

40.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

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

Blake, William

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

44.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

45.

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.

Byron, Lord

46.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

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

Hellman, Lillian

48.

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.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

49.

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

50.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette