To set the cause above renown.

To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe that comes…

— Henry Newbolt

I'm waitin' on the sun to set cause yesterday aint over yet.

— Miranda Lambert

He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette…

— Washington Irving

For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a vice. I…

— Sheila Heti

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

There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.

— Christopher Paolini

It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I work with a cause called the Somaly Mam Foundation, and that is my purpose in life, above anything else. Everything that I do,…

— Shay Mitchell

Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by…

— Charles Babbage

I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To…

— E. Nesbit

The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the…

— Charles Sumner

There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in…

— Charles Spurgeon