80 Renown Quotes
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Famous Renown Quotes
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. — Lois McMaster Bujold
An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one. — Tacitus
Notoriety is often mistaken for fame. — Aesop
It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation. — Francis Atterbury
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. — Euripides
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. — Socrates
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism. — Desiderius Erasmus
Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do. — Christopher Marlowe
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. — William Shakespeare
Royalty does good and is badly spoken of. — Antisthenes
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. — Jeff Bezos
If you hold high office, the whole village will share your fame. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. — James Russell Lowell
Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues — Agesilaus II
Many admire, few know. — Hippocrates
Short Renown Quotes
- Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield. — Winston Churchill
- On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
- I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. — Homer
- Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown. — Leonardo da Vinci
- Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. — Edward Young
- Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown. — Francois Rabelais
- Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned? — Bill Vaughan
- Short is my date, but deathless my renown. — Homer
- All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown. — William Shakespeare
- He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice. — Napoleon Bonaparte
World Renowned Quotes
High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage. — Alan Autry
Until the album is perfect and every track sounds like a single and has a world-renowned icon on it, it's not done. — Riff Raff
Oh, nice one, honey. Yes. Clever. That's becoming quite a familiar quotation in its own right, isn't it? Maybe I should just add it to the next edition. 'Mother was right.' Author: Mrs. Bartlett, world-renowned nag. Year: 1859. Attribution: A short play entitled Every Goddamn Weekend! — John Bartlett
If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words. — Marlo Thomas
Through fashion I have shown my interpretation of the competitive spirit by dressing sportsmen and women, choosing to work with both those who are among the world's most renowned athletes and also those who are yet to achieve fame in the arena of sport. — Giorgio Armani
Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire. — Lawrence Solomon
The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause. — Edward Young
The guys at Smartax are the most renowned Accountants in the world! — Donald Trump
If you are looking for a lover, a job, a new house, or a serial killer, Snoop is for you. It’s great science and a fun read by a world-renowned personality researcher. — James W. Pennebaker
Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People Writing About Renown
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 William Shakespeare |
4052 | 36000 |
 Homer |
508 | 2784 |
 Lois McMaster Bujold |
174 | 428 |
 Tacitus |
220 | 1865 |
 Aesop |
259 | 2777 |
 Francis Atterbury |
30 | 199 |
More Renown Quotes
Anyone who is humble but still super accomplished, super recognized, renowned, has status, and has every reason to not have to be humble if they don't want to, but they still choose to be humble because they value that humanity is connected that we're all on the same level as humans that humility is what wins my heart. — Jay Shetty
The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true riches. If you aspire to the heights of real honor, strive to reach the kingdom of Heaven. If you value rank and renown, hasten to be enrolled in the heavenly court of the Angels. — Pope Gregory I
A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven. — James Madison
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 good and dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood... — Henry Newbolt
The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection. — Tara Brach
Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love. — William Shakespeare
All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues. — John Locke
And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits. — Boethius
renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand. — Ambrose Bierce
It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast; it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat. — Samuel Johnson
A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing. — William Cowper
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. — Sallust
The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the' conquering that gives a hero his title to renown. — Elias Lyman Magoon
NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending. — Ambrose Bierce
Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities. — Ludwig von Mises
Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings. — Don Delillo
Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason. — Glenn Greenwald
He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero. — Washington Irving
Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning. — Frederick Lenz
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. — Martin Luther
It's funny because I think that both France and Britain are known for their distinctive styles and everyone says that France is so chic and elegant but I think more than that French women are renowned for dressing in what suits them. — Alexa Chung
The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and the renown of those who have done good service to their country becomes a matter of common knowledge to the multitude, and part of the heritage of posterity. — Polybius
For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands. — Geoffrey Chaucer
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. — Jean Rostand
The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader ... Because its strength lies in short-range operations it is not uncomfortable standing in a single spot for long periods, as the Bishop is. — Samuel Reshevsky
At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time. — Ralph Allen
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. — Anacreon
You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the LORD's renown, for an everlasting sign, which will not be destroyed. — Isaiah
Renowned management guru Peter F.Drucker looked back at his 65-year consulting career shortly before he died. He concluded that great leaders could either be 'charismatic or dull' or 'visionary or numbers-orientated,' but the most inspiring and effective managers he knew all had said we rather than I. — Robert I. Sutton
In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America. — Garry Kasparov
All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power. — Dante Alighieri
Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. — William Shakespeare
Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies. — Vladimir Nabokov
What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine. — Thomas Carlyle
Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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