Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Madonna

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

2.

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

Cato The Elder

3.

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

4.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

5.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

9.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

11.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

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

Davis, Bette

13.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

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

Villiers, George

15.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

16.

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

17.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

18.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Updike, John

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.

Virgil

25.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

26.

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

Benjamin Haydon

27.

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

Madonna

28.

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

Warhol, Andy

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.

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

31.

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

Auden, W. H.

32.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

36.

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

37.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

38.

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

Baum, Vicki

39.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

40.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

41.

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

42.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

43.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

44.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

45.

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

46.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

47.

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

48.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

49.

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

50.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo