Plutarch Quotes

I've never sought to be known or recognized by people.

I don't consider myself a martial-arts star. I'd be offended and disappointed if I got a reputation as a martial-arts star.

I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.

I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

I don't really consider myself to be famous.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

I don't really care about having more fame than I have.

I actually don't feel famous.

So, I do not work towards fame but if it happens to me, I won't say no.

I don't consider myself an icon.

I was not driven by fame and fortune.

I don't need the fame or power.

I don't actually think about going down in history.

If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.

I don't want to be known as somebody that everybody knows about.

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

I don't think fame is that important to me.

I don't consider myself a star.

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

I don't expect anybody to know who I am.