Citas de renombre

• Debemos vigilarnos a nosotros mismos, no sea que mientras construimos aquí monumentos ideales de Renombre y Dicha, descuidemos inscribir nuestros nombres en los Anales del Cielo.

  James Madison

  Eye, Names, Heaven

  James Madison (1962). “Papers”

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

  Homer

  Lying, Winning, Dust

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• Si cualquier hombre ambicioso tiene la fantasía de revolucionar, con un solo esfuerzo, el mundo universal del pensamiento humano, la opinión humana y el sentimiento humano, la oportunidad es suya - el camino hacia el renombre inmortal está recto, abierto y sin obstáculos ante él. Todo lo que tiene que hacer es escribir y publicar un pequeño libro. Su título debe ser simple, unas pocas palabras: "Mi corazón al desnudo". Pero este pequeño libro debe ser fiel a su título.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Honesty, Lying, Book

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.601, Penguin

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

  Sallust

  Excellence, Fleeting, Riches

  Sallust (1921). “Sallust”

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• No es posible ser considerado con ternura, excepto por unos pocos. Ese mérito que da grandeza y renombre difunde su influencia a un amplio compás, pero actúa débilmente en cada uno de los pechos; se coloca a distancia de los espectadores comunes, y brilla como una de las estrellas remotas, de las que nos llega la luz, pero no el calor.

  Samuel Johnson

  Stars, Distance, Greatness

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.217, Harvard University Press

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• The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the' conquering that gives a hero his title to renown.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Running, Perseverance, Hero

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.188

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• ¿Renombre? Ya tengo más que aquellos a quienes respeto, y nunca tendré tanto como aquellos por quienes siento desprecio.

  Jean Rostand

  Respect, Fame, Contempt

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.

  William Shakespeare

  Crowns, Ends, Fine

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton”, p.159

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• The greatest works of admiration,
  And all the fair examples of renown.
  Out of distress and misery are grown.

  Samuel Daniel

  Fear, Example, Misery

  Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...”, p.362

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

  Edward Young

  Learning, Thinking, Training

  Edward Young (1799). “The poetical works of ... E. Young. With the life of the author. Cooke's ed”, p.37

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• Si hubiera muerto una hora antes de esta oportunidad,
  hubiera vivido un tiempo bendito; porque, desde este instante,
  No hay nada serio en la mortalidad:
  Todo es juguete; el renombre y la gracia están muertos;
  El vino de la vida se apaga, y las meras lías
  Queda esta bóveda para presumir.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Blessed, Wine

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [98]

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• Respira allí el hombre con el alma tan muerta, Que nunca se ha dicho a sí mismo, Esta es mi propia, mi tierra natal.

  Walter Scott

  Patriotic, Country Love, Men

  The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 6, st. 1 (1805)

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• To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes To count the life of battle good and dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood...

  Henry Newbolt

  Eye, Land, Games

  Sir Henry Newbolt, “Clifton Chapel”

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• Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
  The wretch, concentred all in self,
  Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
  And, doubly dying, shall go down
  To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
  Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.

  Walter Scott

  Groundhog Day, Self, Dust

  The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 6, st. 1 (1805)

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• Corta es mi cita, pero inmortal mi renombre.

  Homer

  Fame, Deathless

  Homer (1769). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.329

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• The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true riches. If you aspire to the heights of real honor, strive to reach the kingdom of Heaven. If you value rank and renown, hasten to be enrolled in the heavenly court of the Angels.

  Pope Gregory I

  Real, Angel, Heaven

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• 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 his eyrie, high aloft; they are like the strong mountaineer, who has trodden the virgin snow, who has breathed the fresh, free air of the Alpine regions, and therefore his sinews are braced, and his limbs are vigorous; these are they who do great exploits, being mighty men, men of renown.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Strong, Men, Air

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 18), 1895.

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• He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever was engaged in doing good to the world though superhuman by nature, whose renown there is none to equal in the three worlds, Sita's beloved, whose body of Knowledge Supreme was covered by devotion sweet in the form of Sita. (part of A Hymn To Shri Ramakrishna)

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sweet, Hymns, Three

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• La fama aguarda al comandante que primero devuelva a la artillería su importancia primordial en el campo de batalla.

  Winston Churchill

  Militares, Primeros, Primeros

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• Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.

  Walter Scott

  Home, Heart, Men

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.42

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• And no renown can render you well-known:
  For if you think that fame can lengthen life
  By mortal famousness immortalized,
  The day will come that takes your fame as well,
  And there a second death for you awaits.

  Boethius

  Thinking, Fame, Well Known

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• All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

  Dante Alighieri

  Summer, Flower, September

  Dante Alighieri, Claudia Hamilton Ramsay (1862). “Dante's Divina Commedia Translated Into English, in the Metre and Triple Rhyme of the Original with Notes by Ramsay: Purgatorio”, p.77

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• 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

  Kings, Mean, Excess

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Great Jones Street”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• Lo que el hombre ama, ése es su dios. Porque lo lleva en su corazón; va con ello noche y día; duerme y se despierta con ello, sea lo que sea - riqueza o ego, placer o renombre.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Sleep, Night

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• Así que si quieres encontrarme/ Mira al cielo occidental/ Como alguien me dijo últimamente/ ¡Todos merecen la oportunidad de volar!/ Y si estoy volando solo/ Al menos estoy volando libre/ Dile a aquellos que me castigarían/ Toma un mensaje de vuelta de mí/ ¡Diles cómo estoy desafiando la gravedad!/ Estoy volando alto desafiando la gravedad/ Y pronto los igualaré en renombre./ Y nadie en todo Oz/ Ningún Mago que haya o haya existido/ ¡Va a derribarme jamás!/

  Stephen Schwartz

  Flying High, Sky, Messages

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