Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to
be an excuse for indolence.
Benjamin Haydon
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
Chuang-tzu (369 BC - 286 BC), The Great Supreme
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they
have used to acquire it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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
Popularity? It is glory's small change.
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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