Renown Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Kings, Mean, Excess

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Great Jones Street”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person... With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come.

  Johannes Kepler

  Miracle, Doe, Crowds

  Foreword in "De fundamentis astrologiae certioribus" by Johannes Kepler, 1601.

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• Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Children, Disappointment, Grief

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• Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?

  Edward Young

  Brother, Smart, Heart

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.358

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• Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mean, Men, Vanity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.103

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• Los melancólicos fantasmas del renombre muerto, Susurrando débiles ecos del aplauso del mundo.

  Edward Young

  Echoes, Whispering, World

  Edward Young (1824). "The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality", p.227

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• La grandeza más elevada, que sobrevive al tiempo y a la piedra, es la que procede del alma del hombre. Monarcas y gabinetes, generales y almirantes, con la pompa de la corte y las circunstancias de la guerra, con el paso del tiempo desaparecen de la vista; pero los pioneros de la verdad, aunque pobres y humildes, especialmente aquellos cuyo ejemplo eleva la naturaleza humana y enseña los derechos del hombre, para que "un gobierno del pueblo, por el pueblo y para el pueblo, no perezca de la tierra"; tales precursores nunca pueden ser olvidados, y su renombre se extiende junto con la causa a la que sirvieron tan bien.

  Charles Sumner

  War, Greatness, Men

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• Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809.

  John Stevens Cabot Abbott

  Country, Book, Kentucky

  John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1873). “Christopher Carson: Familiarly Known as Kit Carson”, p.9

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• Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.

  Pietro Aretino

  Cuota

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• Cuando por primera vez las listas de la universidad reciben su nombre,
  El joven entusiasta acolcha su facilidad para la fama;
  Por todas sus venas la fiebre del renombre
  Arde por el fuerte contagio de la toga

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Strong, Quilts

  Samuel Johnson, “The Vanity Of Human Wishes”

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• If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ambition, People, Honor

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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• ¡Qué miserable es la fama! Un renombre del más alto tipo dura, digamos, dos mil años. ¿Y después? Pues entonces se lo traga una eternidad insondable. Trabaja para la eternidad; no para la escasa eternidad retórica de los críticos periódicos, sino para la eternidad real en la que habita la Divinidad.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Años, Dos

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

  Marco Tulio Cicerón

  Incentives, Approval, Virtue

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• Algunos crímenes obtienen honor y renombre por ser cometidos con más pompa, por un mayor número y en un grado de maldad más alto que otros. De ahí que los robos públicos, los saqueos y las expoliaciones hayan sido considerados como excelencias y nobles logros, y que la toma de países enteros, por injusta y bárbara que sea, sea dignificada con el glorioso nombre de conquista.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  Country, Names, Numbers

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• 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.

  Federico Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Fighting

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• 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.

  Polibio

  Country, Memories, Men

  Polybius, Friedrich Hultsch (1889). “The Histories”

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• Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

  Pindar

  Teacher, Teaching, Winning

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• Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.

  Walter Scott

  Hogar, Corazón, Hombres

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.42

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• 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

  Leadership, Kindness, Angel

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Boecio

  Thinking, Fame, Well Known

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• 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

  Summer, Flower, September

  Dante Alighieri, Claudia Hamilton Ramsay (1862). “Dante's Divina Commedia Translated Into English, in the Metre and Triple Rhyme of the Original with Notes by Ramsay: Purgatorio”, p.77

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• Sus virtudes, agraciadas con dones externos, engendran en mi corazón las pasiones del amor; y como el rigor de tempestuosas ráfagas Provoca al más poderoso armatoste contra la marea, Así me impulsa el aliento de su renombre O a sufrir el naufragio o a llegar Donde pueda tener la fruición de su amor.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Heart, Suffering

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copies left by G. Steevens and E. Malone, with a selection of notes from the most eminent commentors by A. Chalmers”, p.343

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Practice, Vices, Virtue

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• 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

  Hero, Heart, Winning

  Washington Irving (1834). "Las obras completas de Washington Irving en un volumen", p.337

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• Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which their occupation can be expressed. We borrow a foreign word [Savant] from another country whose high ambition it is to advance science, and whose deeper policy, in accord with more generous feelings, gives to the intellectual labourer reward and honour, in return for services which crown the nation with imperishable renown, and ultimately enrich the human race.

  Charles Babbage

  Country, Ambition, Science

  Charles Babbage (1851). “The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government of England”, p.189

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