we’ve learned an interesting rule about fame. Those who seem desperate for it are the people that others least want to see.

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with...

Don’t drive a car in the dream, else you won’t drive it on earth. Don’t wish to become, else you won’t become. Don’t associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don’t be addicted...

Integrity of life is fame’s best friend,Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

America takes her writers too seriously.

Lao Tzu’s first paragraph in the book “Tao Te Ching” is that the Tao that can be told is not the absolute Tao.Lao Tzu has his own logic, the logic of paradoxes, the logic of...

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted

She really liked you, Noah,”Yeah, well, maybe I’m just an asshole.’I realize my hand is still in his hair and I retract it quickly. He grabs it, holds it against him. You’re not an asshole...

I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

The American people are strange in their attitudes toward their idols,” he (Taft) mused. They lead them on and then “cut their legs from under them,” simply “to make their fall all the greater.

Think champagne, drink champagne!

Well, I wasn’t going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes his work from that of twenty struggling writers one could name? Of course not. He’s a...

It turns out horrendous when you choose the wrong options.

Some men are born posthumously.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

Odysseus inclines his head. “True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another.” He spread his broad...

Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn’t contribute to either, the good or evil.

If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay.

I’ve heard many say “I’ll sell my soul to the Devil”in hopes of gaining money, power or fame.Why do they think that they have that much worth over any other person?And the Devil if there...

€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.

I was not prepared for fame. It hit me hard, and I did not have the capacity to cope.

I think that fame removes true happiness. Because when you are famous, people know you for who they think you are and when you are happy, it’s because people have met you and see you...

People don’t follow ordinary people; they follow extraordinary people.

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity...

Desire to impact lives! Change destinies and make dreams come true.

There is a ladder to Success! Choose to climb it.

I’m thirsting for fame. I’m so fucking thirsty. Somebody bring me a tall glass of saltwater with a side order of desert.

It’s part of an interesting phenomena that this computer got its 15 minutes of fame and three years later we are still counting. I think it points to our evolving relationship with technology as it...

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me,...

True happiness cannot not be achieved through wealth, fame or action, But through love, modesty and self satisfaction.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.

I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for the sake of my soul.

He might be famous (local newspaper or television) for finding it, true—but if fame takes away the thing it celebrates, then Sebastien would prefer the inspired silence. We’re all famous in our own hearts anyway.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one’s life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling....

I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.

The most magical thing I have come across is a beautiful face with a beautiful heart and it’s you❤ ❤

The reputation is not essentially built by earning too much, learning too many things, achieving awards, bagging rewards or catapulting position to the hilt; but by unquestionably staying simple, humble , well grounded and doing...

I think every player wants to be acknowledged for what they have done. I think every player eligible for the Hall Of Fame feels that the ultimate validation is enshrinement.

For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.

People say I’m not punctual. That’s absurd, because I’m early. It’s my fame and wealth that are late. Once they get here, nobody will care what time I show up—just so long as I show...

Build up your faith while starving the fears.

The image is one thing and the human being is another…It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Gloria în țara aceasta începe cu publicity. Cineva se bucură de publicity doar c nd aduce profit altcuiva.Cine se bucură în America de faima națională? Cei care fac bani sau cei prin intermediul cărora alții...