Quotes about Renown
I'm not an icon. Not even in America.
- John Mayer
Yes, LORD, we wait for You in the path of Your judgments. Our desire is for Your name and renown. Isaiah 26:8
- Beth Moore
They were great in their day and generation.
- Frederick Douglass
Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
- George Bernard Shaw
Peace hath her victories no less renown'd than war.
- John Milton
Many are in high place, and of renown: but mysteries are revealed unto the meek.
- Anonymous
There were giants in the earth in those days… mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
- Anonymous
Speak no more of his renown.Lay your earthly fancies down,And in the vast cathedral leave him.God accept him, Christ receive him.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
His [the author's] renown… has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.
- Washington Irving
Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter.
- Dante Alighieri
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