Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Rosie O'Donnell

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

2.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

3.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

4.

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

5.

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

6.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

7.

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

8.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

9.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

10.

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

11.

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

Davis, Miles

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

15.

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

Ellinger, Jules

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

18.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

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

20.

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

Chuang-tzu

21.

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

Sade, Marquis De

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

30.

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

Huxley, Aldous

31.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

32.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

33.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

34.

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

Warhol, Andy

35.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

36.

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

Villiers, George

37.

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.

38.

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

Blake, William

39.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

40.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

41.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

42.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

43.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

44.

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

Madonna

45.

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

Hazlitt, William

46.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

Cato The Elder

48.

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

49.

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Hazlitt, William

50.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad