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Letter "F" » Fame
«To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.»
Author: Alexander Smith
(Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Fame,
Quotations
| Keywords:
care for, occasionally, quoted
«To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense»
«To myself alone do I owe my fame.»
«The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Fame,
Success
| Keywords:
deserved, do well, sought, sought after
«What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.»
Author: Lord Byron
| About:
Fame
«With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.»
Author: Marilyn Monroe
(Actress)
| About:
Fame
| Keywords:
Day to Day, fame, Somebody else, survival
«Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Fame,
Time
| Keywords:
accidental, artificial
«Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur»
«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.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Ambition,
Authority,
Excellence,
Fame
| Keywords:
sanctioned, sanctions
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