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“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.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.”

Men Writing Ends Certain Names Lost Speak Hero Fame Paper Originals Dust Hills Climbing Portions Uncertain Midnight Wretched Summit Bards Climbing Up Vapour

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“I believe that the purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. And fame is not for our own benefit, or notoriety is not for our own benefit, it's for leverage to do good.”

Believe Purpose Speak I Believe Influence Fame Benefits Notoriety

Author:Rick Warren

“All those years I had been making movies because I loved movies, and that's what made all the difference. If you're doing it because you love it you can succeed because you'll work harder than anyone else around you, take on challenges no one else would dare take, and come up with methods no one else would discover, especially when their prime drive is fame and fortune. All that will follow later if you really love what you do. Because your work will speak itself.”

Ifs Years Made Speak Challenges Differences Hard Work Fame Succeed Harder Method Fortune Come Up Dare Prime Work Harder

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“I'm still very careless about my public persona. Not careless so to speak but I'm not one for fame. I think fame is the worst part about it.”

Thinking Stills Speak Worst Fame Careless Persona

Author:Asher Roth

“I can't speak for everybody, but sometimes, people get in this showbiz game and they get the money, but then they forget why they got in the game in the first place. I don't even look at it as fame, I just look at it as me being me, and me going out here everyday and being productive, because I am the product, and I'm selling myself. I'm selling my ambition and my integrity and my adversity, and I'd just like to be that.”

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Author:Young Jeezy

“You'll never see me in any of the tabloids because I've made a conscious effort to stay out of that. I'm not interested in fame. I'm interested in hard work and letting my work speak for what I do. I've been in high-profile shows but you don't see stories on me because I don't go out and court them.”

Speak Effort Hard Work Fame Conscious Not Interested

Author:Noel Clarke

“In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.”

Purpose Speak Influence Praying Fame Immigrants Illegal Psalms Solomon

Author:Rick Warren

“While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.”

Knows Men Way Mind May Speak Dark Darkness Humility Fame Independence Truthful Obscure Wraps Mist Obscurity Merciful

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd”

Source: The Selected Poems of William Blake