Quotes About Renown

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled,On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be filed.

Many are in high place, and of renown: but mysteries are revealed unto the meek.

His fame was noised throughout all the country.

There were giants in the earth in those days… mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

Constantinople is a city larger than its renown proclaims. May God in his grace and generosity deign to make it the capital of Islam.

It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.

I awoke one morning to find myself famous.

Some for renown on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. To patch-work learned quotations are allied; Both strive to make our poverty our pride.

If you haven't done shows that are on everyone's radar, then you're something out of nowhere.

Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972 and 1976, and was for much of the 1970s and 1980s one of the most powerful men in America.

In Germany I am not so famous.

When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.

They were great in their day and generation.

Fame is just popularity on a higher level.

For who so reaps renown above the rest, With heaps of hate, shall surely be oppressed. —Sir Walter Ralegh's poetry

The aim of a ship's captain is a successful voyage; a doctor's, health; a general's, victory. So the aim of our ideal statesman is the citizens' happy life--that is, a life secure in wealth, rich in resources, abundant in renown, and honorable in its moral character. That is the task which I wish him to accomplish--the greatest and best that any man can have.

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

Lurking behind every chance to be made whole by fame is the axman of further dismemberment. —Leo Braudy, The Frenzy of Renown

Katya was fifteen Amazonian years-twenty-odd, in standard conversion-and impatient with anything that smacked of responsible adulthood. And she wouldn't wear her honor around the house; her hip was naked even of a holster. Of course, Lesa-both hands full of groceries, unable to reach her honor without dropping chickens or fruit-wasn't much of an example, whatever her renown as duelist twenty years and three children ago.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

The renown that riches and beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

He remembered that envy is the concomitant of glory, and thus, the more renowned he became, the greater was his caution and circumspection.