136 Inspiring Quotes About Fame

Fame has been a subject of fascination and speculation for centuries, captivating the imaginations of those who both seek it and observe it. It's a complex tapestry, woven with threads of admiration, scrutiny, and often, the fragile human spirit. While some view fame as the ultimate pinnacle of success, others regard it as a double-edged sword, laden with challenges and unexpected trials. In this exploration, we've curated a collection of 136 inspiring quotes about fame, offering varied perspectives from those who've walked the paths of celebrity, innovation, and public influence. These quotes provide not only insight into the minds of the famous but also invite us to reflect on our own understanding of fame and its role in our lives. Whether you're inspired by tales of resilience, amused by the lighter sides of stardom, or deeply contemplative about its impact, these quotes offer a thought-provoking journey into the world of fame.

1. “If I didn't care for fun and such,I'd probably amount to much.But I shall stay the way I am,Because I do not give a damn.” - Dorothy Parker

2. “And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.” - Isaac Asimov

3. “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.” - Fran Lebowitz

4. “I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell! They ’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!” - Emily Dickinson

5. “I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.” - George Bernard Shaw

6. “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.” - Neil Gaiman

7. “For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men. Make them your examples, and, esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, do not weigh too nicely the perils of war."[Funeral Oration of Pericles]” - Thucydides

8. “You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.” - Jerry Spinelli

9. “Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying” - Gerard Way

10. “An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.” - Andy Warhol

11. “A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours' time by Mrs. Dursley's scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, nor that he would spend the next few weeks being prodded and pinched by his cousin Dudley...He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: "To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!” - J.K. Rowling

12. “Think champagne, drink champagne!” - Ellen Dean

13. “Selbst die Verwandten der Berühmten [sind] berühmt, denn Ruhm [ist] erblich.” - Hanif Kureishi

14. “Not marble nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.When wasteful war shall statues overturnAnd broils roots out the work of masonry,Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burnThe living record of your memory.'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmityShall you pace forth; your praise shall still find roomEven in the eyes of all posterityThat wear this world out to the ending doom.So, till judgement that yourself arise,You in this, and dwell in lovers eyes.” - William Shakespeare

15. “I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.” - Jimi Hendrix

16. “The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero

17. “The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.” - Vladimir Nabokov

18. “To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame” - Alfred de Vigny

19. “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

20. “What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.” - Orson Scott Card

21. “I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.” - William T. Sherman

22. “It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.” - Ray Bradbury

23. “I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.” - Lady Gaga

24. “The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties; all this ancient dust makes one indifferent to fame.” - Gustave Flaubert

25. “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” - Theodore Roosevelt

26. “He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt to keep his most ancient fears at bay, a stratagem for taking refuge behind a lens to test whether reality was more tolerable from that perspective.” - Isabel Allende

27. “Raise your children to love and embrace others. Tell them they are beautiful; they may grow up to be stars one day, and "beautiful" will never mean as much in a magazine as it will coming from you.” - Kaiden Blake

28. “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, solitude is a victory.” - Karl Lagerfeld

29. “Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything.” - J.K. Rowling

30. “Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for!” - Steven Pressfield

31. “I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.” - Andy Warhol

32. “Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or is uncertain. Brief is man's life and small the nook of the earth where he lives; brief, too, is the longest posthumous fame, buoyed only by a succession of poor human beings who will very soon die and who know little of themselves, much less of someone who died long ago.” - Marcus Aurelius

33. “Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students."Don’t let it worry you," said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.” - J.K. Rowling

34. “It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious they would be - given that we are all agreed that money and fame do not bring happiness. Instead the world would prefer to enjoy the idea, against what it knows to be true, that wealth and fame do in fact insulate and protect against misery and it would rather we shut up if we are planning to indicate otherwise.” - Stephen Fry

35. “Dying is the fastest route to fame for an aspiring rock star. The dead man’s melodies become profound, acquiring mystery and rising into a realm beyond the reach of human criticism. In the stopping of a heartbeat, the rocker is transformed from decadent hedonist into misunderstood genius. Aye, death and musical stardom go together like Scotland and rain.” - Mark Rice

36. “€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.” - Slavoj Žižek

37. “Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.” - Bob Dylan

38. “I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.” - Russell Brand

39. “The thoughts of othersWere light and fleeting,Of lovers' meetingOr luck or fame.Mine were of trouble,And mine were steady;So I was readyWhen trouble came.” - A.E. Housman

40. “I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.” - Lady Gaga

41. “I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.” - Lady Gaga

42. “Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.” - Curtis Sittenfeld

43. “Of course, they were other things too. Sometimes they were even everything all together, but not fame, which was rooted in delusion and lies, if not ambition. Also, fame was reductive. Everything that ended in fame and everything that issued from fame was inevitably diminished. Fame's message was unadorned. Fame and literature were irreconcilable enemies.” - Roberto Bolaño

44. “The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.” - Fannie Flagg

45. “I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.” - Marvin Gaye

46. “But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.” - J.K. Rowling

47. “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.” - C. JoyBell C.

48. “Some men are born posthumously.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

49. “People don't always go down in history for the vigor with which they perform their jobs. We remember Louis the Fifteenth . . . for his furniture; we remember Pierre Léotard, despite his being the greatest trapeze artist ever, for his leotard. The idea is to give your name to something, like the zeppelin, the newton, Morse code, the chicuelina.” - David Toscana

50. “I'm an instant star, just add water.” - David Bowie

51. “In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.” - Lionel Shriver

52. “Going down in history is a dead end pursuit” - Benny Bellamacina

53. “Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

54. “When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

55. “It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.” - Mindy Kaling

56. “Being famous is wicked, but being normal is better.” - Rupert Grint

57. “It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.” - Alain De Botton

58. “[The Old Astronomer to His Pupil]Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet,When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet;He may know the law of all things, yet be ignorant of howWe are working to completion, working on from then to now.Pray remember that I leave you all my theory complete,Lacking only certain data for your adding, as is meet,And remember men will scorn it, 'tis original and true,And the obloquy of newness may fall bitterly on you.But, my pupil, as my pupil you have learned the worth of scorn,You have laughed with me at pity, we have joyed to be forlorn,What for us are all distractions of men's fellowship and smiles;What for us the Goddess Pleasure with her meretricious smiles.You may tell that German College that their honor comes too late,But they must not waste repentance on the grizzly savant's fate.Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.What, my boy, you are not weeping? You should save your eyes for sight;You will need them, mine observer, yet for many another night.I leave none but you, my pupil, unto whom my plans are known.You 'have none but me,' you murmur, and I 'leave you quite alone'?Well then, kiss me, -- since my mother left her blessing on my brow,There has been a something wanting in my nature until now;I can dimly comprehend it, -- that I might have been more kind,Might have cherished you more wisely, as the one I leave behind.I 'have never failed in kindness'? No, we lived too high for strife,--Calmest coldness was the error which has crept into our life;But your spirit is untainted, I can dedicate you stillTo the service of our science: you will further it? you will!There are certain calculations I should like to make with you,To be sure that your deductions will be logical and true;And remember, 'Patience, Patience,' is the watchword of a sage,Not to-day nor yet to-morrow can complete a perfect age.I have sown, like Tycho Brahe, that a greater man may reap;But if none should do my reaping, 'twill disturb me in my sleepSo be careful and be faithful, though, like me, you leave no name;See, my boy, that nothing turn you to the mere pursuit of fame.I must say Good-bye, my pupil, for I cannot longer speak;Draw the curtain back for Venus, ere my vision grows too weak:It is strange the pearly planet should look red as fiery Mars,--God will mercifully guide me on my way amongst the stars.” - Sarah Williams

59. “Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.” - Joe Abercrombie

60. “A person who's going to be famous usually drops a few clues by the time they're twenty-one.” - Frank D. Gilroy

61. “I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.” - Thomas Malory

62. “If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.” - Erich Fromm

63. “Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.” - Karl Lagerfield

64. “The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.” - Frida Kahlo

65. “Famous Harry Potter," said Malfoy. "Can't even go to a bookshop without making the front page.” - J.K. Rowling

66. “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 is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.” - Criss Jami

67. “Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.” - B.F. Skinner

68. “Name one hero who was happy."I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back."You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward."I can't.""I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret.""Tell me." I loved it when he was like this."I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it.""Why me?""Because you're the reason. Swear it.""I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes."I swear it," he echoed.We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned."I feel like I could eat the world raw.” - Madeline Miller

69. “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 hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. "Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.” - Madeline Miller

70. “Je ne dois qu'à moi seul toute ma renommée."(L'Excuse à Ariste)” - Pierre Corneille

71. “A finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.” - G.K. Chesterton

72. “Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.” - Tiruvalluvar

73. “If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.” - Audrey Hepburn

74. “Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.” - Vanna Bonta

75. “He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a way that appeals to people with vain, shallow taste. So of course he manipulates his audiences with the blessing of his recording company and the financial investors behind his brand.” - Jess C. Scott

76. “Being famous is like a little bit of you is taken away and goes off and lives on its own and does what it wants... I wish it would do more interesting things!” - Russell Brand

77. “We're in Des Moines, Iowa today, were in Omaha, Nebraska yesterday and Boise, Idaho the day before. When we landed at the airport in Boise, from Portland, Oregon this lady from our plane came up from behind as we walked down the terminal. She approached me and said "Taylor, I just love your song and want to wish you great things in you career." I looked and her and said "Well, THANK YOU!" and then said " who did you talk to?". (and then pointed to my Mom and the Label rep we were traveling with) I was convinced that one of them had talked to the lady on the plane and told her about me and my song. The lady said "neither one" and then I said "Well, how did you know who I was?" and the lady said "because I listen to radio and I watched your video". This was the first time someone had actually KNOWN who I was and MY NAME. wow. I just walked over and hugged her, and said ...."You're the first person who's ever done that, thankyou." It was an amazing moment to remember, and I always will.” - Taylor Swift

78. “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.” - C. JoyBell C.

79. “God rewards every act of obedience to His Will.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

80. “Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

81. “Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

82. “The presence of God is so important in the life of believers. There is abundance of all you need to make your life comfortable in His presence.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

83. “Fantastic,” I said without an ounce of enthusiasm. “I’m just one more embarrassing confession away from taking over the world.” --Spencer Nye” - Jason Letts

84. “I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic (misprint, fault of the publisher)] just go to Paradise. The third one, though, told me to consult some verses from the Koran. [end quote]' ...I can see that he's excited. [narrator]' ...Now I have many positive things to say about Coelho: He is respectable, inspiring as a man, a truth-seeker, and an appealing writer; but one should hesitate to call him a 'literary' writer based on this quote. A 'literary' author knows that a character's excitement should be 'shown' in his or her dialogue and not in the narrator's commentary on it. Advice for Coelho: Remove the 'I can see that he's excited' sentence and show his excitement in the phrasing of his quote.(Now, in defense of Coelho, I am firmly of the opinion, having myself written plenty of prose that is flawed, that a novelist should be forgiven for slipping here and there.)Lastly, it appears that a belief in reincarnation is of great interest to Mr. Coelho ... Just think! He is a man who has achieved, (as Leonard Cohen would call it), 'a remote human possibility.' He has won lots of fame and tons of money. And yet, how his preoccupation with reincarnation—none other than an interest in being born again as somebody else—suggests that he is not happy!” - Roman Payne

85. “Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

86. “I think it's nice for stars to do interviews to make us think they are just like us, but to tell you the truth, I get the feeling that it's all a big lie. The problem is I don't know who's lying.” - Stephen Chbosky

87. “Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.” - Neil Gaiman

88. “No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of us," he admitted, "but we'd be in no position to appreciate it.” - Lloyd Alexander

89. “How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.” - Neal Shusterman

90. “Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!There are points to be scored. There are games to be won.And the magical things you can do with that ballwill make you the winning-est winner of all.Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be,with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.Except when they don'tBecause, sometimes they won't.I'm afraid that some timesyou'll play lonely games too.Games you can't win'cause you'll play against you.” - Dr. Seuss

91. “The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.” - Abraham Maslow

92. “Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?” - Nicole Richie

93. “Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.” - Gore Vidal

94. “My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.” - Elizabeth Hernandez

95. “It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star.I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.” - Bono

96. “Quando un uomo mangia tre pasti al giorno, diventa pericoloso. Per se stesso e per gli altri. Mangiare troppo rende nervosi. Pasti continui e digestioni faticose creano le guerre. Difficilmente i morti di fame combattono tra loro.” - Mauro Corona

97. “Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing.” - Emily Dickinson

98. “When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.” - Criss Jami

99. “I nodded, unsure if Ted sounded admiring or angry. 'I waded in but I couldn't find him. I mean, is it possible - the water wasn't deep enough for him to drown. It doesn't make any sense.''My band made four brilliant albums and never had a single goddamn hit. We were supposed to be the American Rolling Stones, and we couldn't get more than five minutes of airplay. Does that make sense?' Ted stubbed out his cigarette.” - Elizabeth Hand

100. “That anyone would want to be famous still mystified Colin. As TV had trained him to do, he associated the word with divorces and court appearances and rehab and jail time. He knew more than he wanted about all of those except rehab, and that was the one famous people blew off anyway.” - Harry Turtledove

101. “Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.” - Rabindranath Tagore

102. “He who advances without seeking fame,Who retreats without escaping blame,He whose one aim is to protect his people and serve his lord,The man is a jewel of the Realm” - Sun Tzu

103. “And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned by their name.” - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

104. “Meditation is the way to be with ourselves and to learn to accept our own aloneness. In aloneness, I experiment with being consciously alone as a door to be egoless. In conscious aloneness, the ego can not function. In aloneness, you are not. I have always been comfortable with my own aloneness as an inner source of love, joy, truth, silence and wholeness. When we depend on other people, it becomes a bondage - instead of a freedom. I took this sunday as a meditation to be consciously alone, and to accept all feelings of pain, of not being loved and the fear of being nobody that would come up during the meditation. This meditation goes up and down during the day: at certain moments, I can totally accept my aloneness. It feels fine to accept that I am alone and that I am nobody. At other moments, I feel the pain of not being loved, when the meditation brings up how dependence on other people is a barrier to totally accept my aloneness. I take a coffee at a restaurant. I am the only person that sits alone in the restaurant, while the other guests are couples and families eating sunday dinner. It brings up painful feelings of not being loved and wanting to be needed by other people, when I see how much people cling to each other in the couples and the families. Escaping your aloneness through relationships and needing other people's attention through being a teacher, a politician or by being rich or famous, are ways of escaping the pain of aloneness. But then the relationships are not really love. Only when you are capable of being alone, you can really love. When we can be alone, we discover the inner source of love, which is our true nature. When we can be alone, it open the door to be one with the Whole.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

105. “The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]” - Robert Hughes

106. “The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

107. “Why shouldn’t I? I demand silently. Why shouldn’t I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemmingway and all those other men. Why can’t I be like them? I mean, what is the point of becoming a writer if no one reads what you’ve written?Damn Viktor Greene and The New School. Why do I have to keep proving myself all of the time? Why can’t I be like L’il, with everyone praising and encouraging me? Or Rainbow, with her sense of entitlement. I bet Viktor Greene never asked Rainbow why she wanted to be a writer.Or what if-I wince-Viktor Greene is right? I’m not a writer after all.” - Candace Bushnell

108. “God takes us through life`s journey. Always nudging our Spirits to go for plus and shun the minus.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

109. “Be positive at all times! Leave out the negatives.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

110. “There is a ladder to Success! Choose to climb it.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

111. “In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

112. “Ride higher in life unto the higher life.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

113. “Shout out for Joy! Don`t scream out in fear for victors shout and victims scream.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

114. “Don`t turn around in circles for making circles do not equate making progress.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

115. “Move forward for forward is progress but circles are movement.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

116. “It turns out horrendous when you choose the wrong options.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

117. “There is seed time and harvest, choose to sow at the right time so as to have a bountiful harvest.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

118. “Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

119. “Build up your faith while starving the fears.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

120. “Avoid conflicts, Embrace cordiality.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

121. “Eschew evil and it`s machinations.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

122. “Sow the right words! Think the good thought.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

123. “Don`t complain, Don`t compromise.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

124. “Stand out tall amidst challenges! Dwarf all irrelevant voices.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

125. “Drown those degrading thoughts.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

126. “Shine forth your light before all beings.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

127. “Light is life and always wins.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

128. “Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time!” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

129. “Desire to give and not always receive.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

130. “The giver is the blessed! The receiver stands still.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

131. “Desire to impact lives! Change destinies and make dreams come true.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

132. “You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

133. “Fame and recognition break all scandals; if I were a prostitute I would have chosen to be a famous one.” - M.F. Moonzajer

134. “Because personally I think mattering is a piss-poor idea. I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that’s when you get shot down. The bigger a deal you are, the worse your life is.” - John Green

135. “LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the stunted desire caused by one of its oldest lies. Do not believe the photographs. Fame is not the exit from any cage.” - David Foster Wallace

136. “Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you’re successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you’re inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.” - Shannon L. Alder