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• Fame: The state of being known by many people.  Oxford Dictionary
• Fame: The state of being known or recognized by many people because of your achievements, skills.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Fame: Widespread reputation, especially of a favorable character; renown; public eminence.  Dictionary.com
• Reputation,  Approval seeking,  Greatness,  Honor

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The desire for fame can be strong

• The desire for fame tempts even noble minds. Augustine
• To me, fame is the important thing. I’d give up all I owned for it. What good is a voice like Orpheus’ if no one knows it belongs to you? Euripides
• You haven’t lived until you’ve basked in the adoration of people. Jerry Spinelli
• Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die — that is what we march for! Steven Pressfield
• Fame is the thirst of youth. Lord Byron
• Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit. Joseph Addison
• The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. Blaise Pascal
• Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. Blaise Pascal
• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. Edmund Burke

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Fame is seen as a path to happiness

• I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God. Madonna
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Fame is seen as a kind of immortality

• Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying. Gerard Way
• The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. Cicero
• If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live after he’s died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success. James Dean
• What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own? Abraham Cowley
• Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. Friedrich Schiller
• People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay. Moby

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Some even argue infamy is better than obscurity

• Notoriety wasn’t as good as fame but was heaps better than obscurity. Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
• Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten. Christopher Paolini
• In a country that doesn’t discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable. Lionel Shriver
• To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten. Emile M. Cioran

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The truth is that fame, like wealth, is a false beacon light

• Do not let your “eye” be drawn by the false “beacon lamps” – of wealth, or position, or fame, or possessions. Be vigilant over your will and desires, for these are the corrupt forces that dwell within, and keep you from living free. John of the Cross

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True happiness and fulfilment does not come from fame

• A look filled with understanding, an accepting smile, a loving word, a meal shared in warmth and awareness are the things which create happiness in the present moment. By nourishing awareness in the present moment, you can avoid causing suffering to yourself and those around you.  The way you look at others, your smile, and your small acts of caring can create happiness. True happiness does not depend on wealth or fame.  Thich Nhat Hanh
• Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it. Marty Rubin
• Here are the goals that aren’t going to help you achieve lasting well- being: becoming famous, seeking power over others, or polishing your public image. Any goal that is related to obtaining other people’s validation and approval or external signs of self-    worth isn’t going to do it for you, either. Accumulating wealth for its own sake also won’t lead you to real happiness. Heidi Grant Halvorson
• I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer. Jim Carrey
• Fame doesn’t fulfil you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary. Marilyn Monroe
• There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. Joseph Addison
• Happiness,  Fulfilment

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In fact, fame can make you very unhappy …

• Fame had brought me so much unhappiness. Brigitte Bardot
• 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. Edward Bulwer Lytton
• 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 for who you really are. Of course, if you are not a great person, it’s better to be famous. But if you have greatness, it’s better to not be famous. JoyBell C.
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… and a hunger for fame can diminish your sense of mental well being

• Goals that are all about obtaining external validation of self- worth—like being popular, famous, or rich—not only won’t make you truly happy, but will actively diminish your sense of well-being, by interfering with the pursuit of goals that will really benefit you. If you have goals like these in your life, it’s time to rid yourself of them. Heidi Grant Halvorson
• The researchers found that if any of the three extrinsic aspirations—for money, fame, or beauty—was very high for an individual relative to the three intrinsic aspirations, the individual was also more likely to display poorer mental health. In contrast, strong aspirations for any of the intrinsic goals—meaningful relationships, personal growth, and community contributions—were positively associated with well-being. Edward Deci
• Fame for fame’s sake is toxic – some people want that, with no boundaries. It’s unhealthy. Annie Lennox
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Fame never truly satisfies

• Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; the same is true of fame. Arthur Schopenhauer
• Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed. Alexander Pope

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Fame doesn’t meet our deepest needs

• This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work. Mitch Albom
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Fame is an illusion

• Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it’s just an illusion. Juliette Binoche
• Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure. Emilio Estevez
• Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion. Al Goldstein
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Actual fame can have strong drawbacks

• When you’re famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature — and it won’t hurt your feelings — like it’s happening to your clothes not you. Marilyn Monroe
• Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. Erica Jong
• Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot. Bob Dylan
• If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world. Audrey Hepburn
• Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both. Marilyn Monroe
• Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. Benjamin Disraeli
• Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• I don’t think I realized that the cost of fame is that it’s open season on every moment of your life. Julia Roberts
• Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them. David Bowie
• Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish. Tiger Woods
• Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do. Katy Perry
• I want to poke holes in the erroneous beliefs about what fame provides. It won’t raise your self-esteem, it won’t create profound connection, it’s not going to heal your childhood traumas, it’s only going to amplify them. You’re going to be subject to a lot of criticism and praise, both of which are violent in their own ways. Alanis Morissette
• Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it. Alanis Morissette
• Fame is a bright flower, but weeds abound mostly around it. Edward Counsel

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Fame does not bring inner peace

• Fame and tranquillity can never be bedfellows. Michel de Montaigne
• The best way for us to create peace in the world is to find peace in ourselves. Nothing on the outside will ever give you that.  Not money.  Not fame.  Not Ferraris.  Robin Sharma
• Fame is the responsibility, the perennial discipline, the concubine who solicits and imbibes, bit by bit, the love, the relations, the serenity, and the soul, leaving behind the subaqueous plaudits that pinch to the core. Himmilicious
• Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright. L. Mencken
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Fame can bring loneliness

• Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. Vicki Baum
• It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. Albert Einstein
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Fame is to be known by people you don’t care about …

• What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. Lord Byron
• A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know. Henry Louis Mencken

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… and to have to constantly please those people

• I have way too many commitments. I get pulled in too many directions and I never seem to be able to satisfy anybody. People get turned on by knowing a celebrity, even my friends and family. They feel that there’s something exciting about me, but in reality there’s no substance to it. People in airports just hold on to me expecting something and it seems that I always come up empty. It’s frustrating because I’m trying to please everybody, and you just can’t do that … at least I can’t. Tim Allen
• Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. Baruch Spinoza
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Fame means others try to use you

• With fame, you can’t trust everybody. You can’t depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you’ve got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you’ve got and what you can bring to their life. It’s not a relationship-it’s a leech. Chris Brown
• The more well-known you are, you become a target. Calvin Klein

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Fame is transient and fickle

• Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! Walter Savage Landor
• In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. Andy Warhol
• If fame goes by, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live. Marilyn Monroe
• Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal. Don Williams, Jr
• Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles. Thomas Carlyle
• The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. Dante (“Dante Alighieri”)
• All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power. Dante
• 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
• Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. Gene Tierney

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Fame is something that the public and media loves to tear down

• The public loves to create a hero…. Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick. Grace Metalious
• I think I have heard of her. Isn’t she the one who killed her children? Neil Gaiman
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Fame can be a destructive force

• For as yet I did not understand fame, that public destruction of one in the process of becoming, into whose building- ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones. Rainer Maria Rilke
• Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself. Daniel Radcliffe

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Fame often means you can’t go out

• You know, there’s a moment when you’re famous when it’s unbearable to go out because you’re too famous. And then there’s a moment when you’re famous just right. Steve Martin
• A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised. Fred Allen

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Fame often comes with enemies

• You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do not bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear. Victor Hugo
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Fame is the opinion of others and that opinion belongs to them, not to you

• But other people’s reactions and opinions are simply other people’s reactions and opinions. They are having their own experience and none of it has anything to do with you – it does not make you wrong, guilty, bad, unworthy, famous, loveable, or important. Don Miguel Ruiz
• No matter how much fame you have, it’s not something that belongs to you. If I’m famous, that doesn’t belong to me–that belongs to you. If you can’t remember who I am, I’m no longer famous. Michael J. Fox

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To enjoy true fame, you often have to die first …

• Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave. Charles Caleb Colton
• Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; and they have kept it since by being dead. John Dryden
• Some men are born posthumously. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Dying is the fastest route to fame for an aspiring rock star. The dead man’s melodies become profound, acquiring deep mystery and rising into a realm beyond the reach of human criticism. In the stopping of a heartbeat, the rocker is transformed from decadent, depraved hedonist into misunderstood genius. Aye, death and musical stardom go together like Scotland and rain. Mark Rice
• If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it. Martial
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… but what use is fame after you die?

• The people itching for immortal fame do not see that everyone who remembers them will themselves soon die, and the next generation in its turn, until these memories, transmitted by people who foolishly admire and then die, will perish. But even if these people were immortal and your memory stayed alive forever, what does it matter to you? What good is praise to the buried, or even the living, except for some practical use?  You reject Nature’s gift today if you cling to what people may say of you tomorrow.  Marcus Aurelius
• Of present fame think little, and of future less. The praises that we receive after we are buried, like the posies that are strewn over our graves, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead; the dead are gone, either to a place where they hear them not, or where, if they do, they will despise them. Charles Caleb Colton
• What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name–Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.  Henry Van Dyke
• Fame is a food that dead men eat. Henry Austin Dobson
• Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim–at last the transient glory of a splendid name, and have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust, poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust. Andrew Downing
• Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us. Charles Caleb Colton
• Fame: A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. Christian Nestell Bovee
• What a waste of time to be posthumously famous. Orson Scott Card
• For children preserve the fame of a man after his death. Aeschylus
• It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?… What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare. Virginia Woolf
• Going down in history is a dead-end pursuit. Benny Bellamacina

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Fame is not a true sign of merit

• The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. Jean Genet
• Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man. Thomas Carlyle
• Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. Doris Lessing
• That sort of reputation which precedes performance is often the larger part of a man’s fame. George Eliot
• Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. Emily Dickinson

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Fame is not a true measure of greatness …

• 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. Daniel J. Boorstin
• Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one’s spirit, not a result of one’s rank in human affairs. Sherman Finesilver
• Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
• Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars. Henry David Thoreau
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… especially in today’s shallow celebrity culture

• A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to- mix fame as nutritious as packet soup. G. Ballard
• The present condition of fame is merely fashion. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Fame is not a true measure of success

• Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. Erma Bombeck
• I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, it’s about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self- sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world. Anita Roddick
• The yardstick of success is not measured by fame and wealth; it is measured by your level of understanding of who you are, why you are here and where are you going from here. Tulshi Sen
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The ultimate currency for a human is happiness; not fame

• A human being, like a business, makes profits and suffers losses. For a human being, however, the ultimate currency is not money, nor is it any external measure, such as fame, fortune, or power. The ultimate currency for a human being is happiness. Tal Ben-Shahar
• That should be the measure of success for everyone. It’s not money, it’s not fame, it’s not celebrity; my index of success is happiness. Lupe Fiasco
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True happiness comes from pursuing what is satisfying and meaningful to you rather than fame

• Intrinsic goals are those that you pursue because they are inherently satisfying and meaningful to you, which allow you to grow as a person, to develop emotional maturity, and to contribute to your community. By contrast, extrinsic goals reflect more what other people approve or desire of you – for example, pursuing goals for such superficial reasons as making money, boosting your ego, seeking power of fame, and bowing to manipulation or peer pressure.  Research shows following intrinsic goals make us happier, in part because they are more inspiring and enjoyable and because they satisfy our most basic psychological needs in life. Sonja Lyubomirsky
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True happiness comes from loving what you do rather than fame

• The happiest people in the world are people who love what they are doing, regardless of whether wealth, fame, power and elevated social status ever come their way. The most fulfilled people are individuals who delight in their work, whatever it might be, and strive to do it well. Tom Morris
• We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or something to be enthusiastic about. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. Robert Louis Stevenson
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True happiness comes deepening and enriching lives rather than fame

• Make sure your goals are dynamic, that is to say, point toward an activity that you are engaged in and through which you are connected to other human beings as well as to the whole. Instead of seeing yourself as a famous actor and writer and so on, see yourself inspiring countless people with your work and enriching their lives. Feel how that activity enriches or deepens not only your life but that of countless others. Feel yourself being an opening through which energy flows from the unmanifested Source of all life through you for the benefit of all. Eckhart Tolle
• Service,  Making a difference

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True happiness comes from spiritual connection rather than fame

• To imagine that some little thing – food, sex, power, fame-will make you happy is to deceive oneself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• We had come to believe that the material world was the only reality. Thus, feeling essentially lost, empty, and alone, we have continually attempted to find happiness through addiction to external things, such as money, material possessions, relationships, work, fame, food or drugs. As we begin to remember our fundamental spiritual connection, we can look within for the source of our satisfaction, joy, and fulfilment. Shakti Gawain
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Don’t make fame your primary focus in life

• It’s not wrong to want resources. It’s not wrong to have as a goal the positive recognition and respect of other people. But money, fame, power, and social status should never be our primary focus. Tom Morris
• The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off. Tacitus

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Instead of seeking fame, focus on doing the best you can with the talent you have

• I’ve never sought success in order to get fame and money; it’s the talent and the passion that count in success. Ingrid Bergman
• The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• With humility, you pursue excellence, not fame. Rick Hanson
• Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be. William Clark
• Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else – very rarely to those who say to themselves, ‘Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!’. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Instead of seeking fame, focus on personal relationships, personal growth and contributing to others

• It seems that people who are the healthiest focus on developing satisfying personal relationships, growing as individuals, and contributing to their community. Surely, they also aspire to sufficient financial success to live comfortably. But wealth, fame, and beauty do not disproportionately occupy the consciousness of these people the way they dominate the experiences of individuals who are less psychologically stable. Edward L. Deci
• The meaning of life is not to be found in having lots of money, fame, prestige, or stuff. It’s to be found in living your proper quest of positive achievement. Making a difference in the lives of other people, make a difference for good, create new relationships, new feelings, new structures of goodness in the world by what you do and who you are, and you will feel in that process what we so often seek with such futility in all the wrong places. The right sort of quest can be enjoyed at the deepest possible levels. Tom Morris
• Principles for healthy relationships,  Growth,  Contribution

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Instead of fame, focus on giving the best of yourself to the handful of people around you

• I know from the bottom of my heart and with all of it, that it doesn’t matter if at the end of your life you can say that you shared the best of yourself with the rest of the world and it doesn’t matter if everyone in the world remembers you as wonderful; but what matters is if at the end of your life you can say that you shared the best of yourself with the handful of people who are around you, that you gave the wonderful in you, to the people you love and who love you. Happiness never has and never will come from fame. JoyBell C.
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Instead of seeking fame, focus on finding meaning in life

• Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter. Harold Kushner
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Instead of seeking fame, focus on finding truth

• Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau
• 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 us. Louisa May Alcott
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Instead of seeking fame, focus on being good

• The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil. Boyd K. Packer
• Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Alexander Pope
• Goodness,  Virtue

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Instead of seeking fame, focus on adventure, openness and receptivity

• I will not be “famous,” “great.” I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one’s self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded. Virginia Woolf
• Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. Rainer Maria Rilke
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Instead of seeking fame, focus on being loved and being yourself

• Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable. JoyBell C.
• Love,  Be who you are

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Instead of seeking fame, focus on developing the mind

• The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. Sallust

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Instead of seeking fame, focus on developing character

• Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. Horace Greeley
• If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation? Chanakya
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Instead of seeking fame, focus on self-respect

• I’d rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. Ani Difranco
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Fame has its rewards

• That’s one of the cool things about fame. You have an effect on society and where it goes. Jeff Bridges
• Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included. Erica Jong

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Fame has its uses

• Fame is only good for one thing- they will cash your check in a small town. Truman Capote
• Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster. Sandra Bullock
• Fame lightens labour. Edward Counsel

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Fame can bring inspiration to others

• Do a little research online to find famous people who have overcome depression. Read about the many celebrities who are revealing their battles with depression. Read their stories. Take heart in the fact that there are others who have overcome depression. Jack Herrick
• I have a whole committee of heroes and heroines who comprise my committee of advisors. Whenever I feel stumped, I close my eyes and imagine my Board of Advisors sitting around my own personal Round Table. I’ve varied them through the years, but they are my favorite spiritual leaders, inventors, social change leaders, psychologists, presidents, entertainers, simple/down-to- earth folks, etc. Some are living, some are long dead; some famous, some not. I ask them what they’d do in this situation, and I always get the answers I need. Nancy Irwin
• Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity, who drink of that flood of glory as of a river and refresh our wings in it for future flight. William Hazlitt
• Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The best kind of fame comes in smaller doses

• The best fame is a writer’s fame. It’s enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat. Frances Ann Lebowitz
• You know, there’s a moment when you’re famous when it’s unbearable to go out because you’re too famous. And then there’s a moment when you’re famous just right. Steve Martin
• Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal. Marilyn Monroe

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Fame can be very hard to attain and often requires luck

• Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame’s proud temple shines afar! James Beattie
• Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike. N. Elrod
• There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. Jean de la Bruyere
• Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it! Davy Crockett
• Stardom isn’t a profession; it’s an accident. Lauren Bacall
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Fame comes from energy, enthusiasm and hard work

• I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. Harry S. Truman
• Energy management,  Enthusiasm,  Hard work,  Effort

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Fame comes from excellence

• 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. William Hazlitt
• When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. Thomas Carlyle
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Fame comes from wisdom

• Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. Alfred North Whitehead
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Fame comes from tapping into the power of your mind

• You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self- fulfilment, and it can do the same for you. Brian Tracy
• Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Victor Hugo

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Fame can seem wonderful at first

• The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame. Luc De Clapiers, Marquis De Vauvenargues

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Love of fame is a kind of vanity

• The highest form of vanity is love of fame. George Santayana
• Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit. Joseph Addison
• And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Marcus Aurelius)
• Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. W H. Auden
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Fame is like a river

• Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Francis Bacon
• Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. William Davenant
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Fame compete and compares itself with others

• Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another’s fame. Baltasar Gracian

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Protect yourself from the winds of fame through the practice of equanimity

• Equanimity is a protection from the “eight worldly winds”: praise and blame, success and failure, pleasure and pain, fame and disrepute. Becoming attached to or excessively elated with success, praise, fame or pleasure can be a set-up for suffering when the winds of life change direction. Identifying with failure, we may feel incompetent or inadequate. Reacting to pain, we may become discouraged. If we understand or feel that our sense of inner well-being is independent of the eight winds, we are more likely to remain on an even keel in their midst. Gil Fronsdal
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What matters most about fame is what you do with it

• Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it. Fred Rogers

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People rarely live up to their fame

• Even the best things are not equal to their fame. Henry David Thoreau
• 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. Alan Alda
• 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. Elvis Presley

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Martyrdom is no way to acquire fame

• The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. Emily Dickinson
• Martyrdom: the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.   George Bernard Shaw

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• A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. Allen Fred
• A celebrity is anyone who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair. Steve Martin
• A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know. George (Lord) Byron
• A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to become known and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
• A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. Daniel J. Boorstin
• Acquaintance: A degree of friendship called ‘slight’ when its object is poor and ‘intimate’ when he is rich or famous.
• After a fellow gets famous it doesn’t take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school. Frank  …Kin’ Hubbard
• Andy Warhol made fame more famous. Fran Lebowitz
• Any idiot can get laid when they’re famous that’s easy  it’s getting laid when you’re not famous that takes some talent.   Kevin Bacon
• Celebrity: A person whose name is in everything but the telephone book.
• Exhaustion: Sufficient cause for the hospitalization of a celebrity – the normal state of existence for the rest of the working world.
• Fame changes a lot of things but it can’t change a light bulb. Gilda Radner
• Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end and in the case of Michael Jackson to the kiddy pool. Bill Maher
• Fame loses a little of its cache when you have to tell people that you have it. Russell Brand
• Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers. Brad Pitt
• Fame was like a drug but what was even more like a drug were the drugs. Homer Simpson
• I don’t want to get so famous to where the guy who shoots me becomes famous. Michael  …Geechy Guy’ Cathers
• I have enemies I’ve never met – that’s fame.   Tallulah Bankhead
• I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. Shirley Temple Black
• I want a billion people to know my name as well as they know their own. I want to clone myself to fame. Jarod Kintz
• I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I’m dead. Laura Kightlinger
• I’m an instant star, just add water. David Bowie
• If you believe the past can’t be changed you haven’t read a celebrity’s autobiography. Sam Ewing
• It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich. Alan Alda
• 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. Robert Benchley
• It’s hard to be famous and alive. Terry Pratchett
• 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. Alan Alda
• A. is so celebrity-conscious there’s a restaurant that only serves Jack Nicholson – and when he shows up they tell him there’ll be a ten-minute wait.   Bill Maher
• Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow God to go on first; I can also remember that on that particular occasion He gave a singularly uninspired performance. Noel Coward
• Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw
• No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather. Michael Pritchard
• People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they’ve done. Cullen Hightower
• The best fame is a writer’s fame: it’s enough to get a table at a good restaurant but not enough that you get interrupted when you eat. Fran Lebowitz
• The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you. Mel Brooks
• The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people they think it’s their fault. Henry Kissinger
• The number of person’s relatives is directly proportional to his fame. Einstein Theory of Relatives
• There are two types of actors: those who say they want to be famous and those who are liars. Kevin Bacon
• We can’t all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by. Sebastian Horsley
• Were any famous men born on your birthday? “No, only little babies.”
• You’re not famous until my mother has heard of you. Jay Leno

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