Quotes About Renown

The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valor.

In the last generation, this country produced one of the most eminent men of science in the whole world. His name was quite unknown among us while he lived, and it is still unknown. Yet I may say without too great exaggeration that when I heard it mentioned in a professional assembly in the Netherlands two years ago, everybody got down under the table and touched their foreheads to the floor. His name was Josiah Willard Gibbs .

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

Germans of Jewish descent accounted for an outsize portion of the culture for which the nation would earn renown.

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

Quiet consummation have;And renowned be thy grave!

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.

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

My buildings are more famous than me.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Speak no more of his renown.Lay your earthly fancies down,And in the vast cathedral leave him.God accept him, Christ receive him.

Fame creeps up on you.

I have never taken stardom seriously.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

he became very rich and prosperous, and was henceforth known as My Lord Bag of Rice.

She dwelleth in the Ground— Where Daffodils—abide— Her Maker—Her Metropolis— The Universe—Her Maid— To fetch Her Grace—and Hue— And Fairness—and Renown— The Firmament's—To Pluck Her— And fetch Her Thee—be mine—

Read, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid; How many times they bore The faithful witness, Till we are helped, As if a kingdom cared! Read then of faith That shone above the fagot; Clear strains of hymn The river could not drown; Brave names of men And celestial women, Passed out of record Into renown!

But I want power and renown so that I may help other people," you say. What do you mean by "help"? Can you really give them happiness and satisfaction—things that are in their own spheres of power, not yours?

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine's wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: 'Tis better drunk, than dead to lie.

I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.