Renown Quotes

“Literary prizes have always sparked controversy. Their validity has always been questioned as the criteria to determine books merits are subjective.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Don’t worry if you have no position: worry about making yourself worthy of one. Don’t worry if you aren’t known and admired: devote yourself to a life that deserves admiration.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay.”
― Liezi, Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living

“It is well known that geometry presupposes not only the concept of space but also the first fundamental notions for constructions in space as given in advance. It only gives nominal definitions for them, while the essential means of determining them appear in the form of axioms. The relationship of these presumptions is left in the dark; one sees neither whether and in how far their connection is necessary, nor a priori whether it is possible. From Euclid to Legendre, to name the most renowned of modern writers on geometry, this darkness has been lifted neither by the mathematicians nor the philosophers who have laboured upon it.”
― Bernhard Riemann

“Those who wish their virtue to be advertised are not striving for virtue but for renown. Are you not willing to be just without being renowned? Nay, indeed you must often be just and be at the same time disgraced. And then, if you are wise, let ill repute, well won, be a delight. Farewell.”
― Seneca Lucius Annaeus, Letters from a Stoic

“Fame: it’s a drug more potent than opium”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen

“Imagine a piece of spaghetti that looks edible but that never ends once you start sucking it in—that’s fame in a nutshell.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

“Death or renown, ladies and gentlemen.”
― James Luceno, Tarkin