I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
Gloria VanderbiltRead
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you
Interpretation
Earned fame is more fulfilling than fame that comes without effort.
This quote highlights the difference between fame that is attained through hard work and talent versus fame that comes from external circumstances or superficial means. Those who earn their recognition are likely to feel a deeper sense of accomplishment and satisfaction compared to those who have fame merely thrust upon them without genuine merit or effort.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about pursuing one's passions.
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.
I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things I think, on the inside, show on the outside.
I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it.
Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.
This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making.
I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms.
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