Quotes About Renown

I don't in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I'm not.

Anyone can be a celebrity now; this is not a big deal anymore.

I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous.

There aren't that many superstars around anymore.

Kleos is sometimes translated as acoustic renown the spreading renown you get from people talking about your exploits. It's a bit like having a large Twitter following.

What is lawful, what is unlawful?" asked Ku Yuan, prince and poet of Chu. "This country is a slough of despond! Nothing is pure any longer! Informers are exalted! And wise men of gentle birth are without renown!"3

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.

The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not.

Wherin they shalle fynde many Ioyous and playsaunt hystoryes / and noble & renomed actes of humanyte / gentylnesse and chyualryes / For herein may be seen noble chyualrye / Curtosye / Humanyte / frendlynesse / hardynesse / loue / frendshyp / Cowardyse / Murdre / hate / vertue / and synne / Doo after the good and leue the euyl / and it shal brynge you to good fame and renommee / And for to passe the tyme thys boook shal be plesaunte to rede in /

The real man gains renown by standing between his family and destruction, absorbing the blows of fate with equanimity.

Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

You can't get unfamous. You can get infamous but you can't get unfamous.

If God used only experts and people of renown, some could boast in their own wisdom, but God's way of doing things is not the same as our way. We ordinary people have been given power and wisdom through the Holy Spirit and are called to love others (John 13:34).