He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. — Homer Copy Share Image
Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on… — John Stevens Cabot Abbott Copy Share Image
O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals,… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine's wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: 'Tis… — Anacreon Copy Share Image
The weaker sex, to piety more prone, by rare examples, oft have been renown'd. When many murders were bewail'd by none, an… — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame; Through all his veins the fever… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The ones who count are those persons who - though they may be of little renown - respond to and are responsible… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
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