Renown Quotes

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

(But Bird had a couple of factors working in his favor. First and foremost, he was a businessman with a businessman`s head governing his restaurateur`s heart. He knew exactly what he was getting into when he picked up this Hampden Avenue space -- formerly a buck-a-scoop Chinese buffet of no renown, but with good street visibility and a big parking lot -- and chose it over properties he`d been scouting in Boulder, L.A. and the Bay Area.) I figured I could mitigate my chance of failure to 50 percent here, ... Seriously, I didn`t go into this thinking I had an 80, 90 percent chance of success. I`m not deluded.

Imperishable renown is cold comfort when you can only enjoy it in the tomb!