Quotes About Renown

Selbst die Verwandten der Berühmten [sind] berühmt, denn Ruhm [ist] erblich.

To set the cause above renown,To love the game beyond the prize,To honor, while you strike him down,The foe that comes with fearless eyes;To count the life of battle goodAnd dear the land that gave you birth,And dearer yet the brotherhoodThat binds the brave of all the earth.

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Yes, LORD, we wait for You in the path of Your judgments. Our desire is for Your name and renown. Isaiah 26:8

My reputation precedes me now.

I felt that Stephen had become such a significant figure, a scientist of such international renown, that at some future date, someone would be sure to attempt an inaccurate, sensationalised biography, possibly including me, possibly writing me out of the script.

I will either be famous or infamous.

It doesn't matter if you're famous or infamous. All that matters is you're a celebrity.

I never pursued being 'famous.'

I don't want this to come out the wrong way, but in the '60s and '70s, I don't know anybody who was known around the world like I was.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

Some travellers tell us that an Indian had no name given him at first, but earned it, and his name was his fame; and among some tribes he acquired a new name with every new exploit. It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame

I had not gone to bed; I sat reading by a couple of candles. There was a roomful of old books at Bly—last-century fiction, some of it, which, to the extent of a distinctly deprecated renown, but never to so much as that of a stray specimen, had reached the sequestered home and appealed to the unavowed curiosity of my youth.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

It's not nearly far enough if you've already become famous for something you want to forget forever.