Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Madonna

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Cato The Elder

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

10.

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

Pope, Alexander

11.

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

Johnson, Don

12.

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

Carver, George Washington

13.

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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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

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

Benjamin Haydon

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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

18.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

22.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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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

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

Dave Kellett

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

Blake, William

27.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

28.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Ellinger, Jules

30.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Alexander The Great

32.

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.

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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

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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

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

37.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rosie O'Donnell

39.

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

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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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Voltaire

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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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Chuang-tzu

49.

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

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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