Quotes about glory

The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is their gray head.

— Bible

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

— Lord Byron

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

— William Cowper

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

— Charles De Gaulle

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

— Thomas Gray

The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.

— Baron Grimm

Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.

— Thomas Hobbes

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

— Eric Hoffer

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

— David Jenkins

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

— Samuel Johnson

Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.

— Abraham Lincoln

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy

— Lope de Vega

Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?

— Christopher Marlowe

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

— Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.

— Marcus Valerius Martial

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

— Thomas Paine

Glory is the shadow of virtue.

— Latin Proverb

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

— William Shakespeare

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys it is all hell.

— William T. Sherman

Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory.

— Sydney Smith

Glory is the child of peril.

— Tobias G. Smollett

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

— Socrates

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

There's no glory like those who save their country.

— Lord Alfred Tennyson

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

— Joseph P. Thompson

I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.

— Thomas Traherne

God gave man the challenge of raw materials -- not the ease of finished things. He left the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation.

— Source Unknown

True glory lies in noble deeds.

— Source Unknown

The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.

— Source Unknown

All glory comes from daring to begin.

— Eugene F. Ware

Don't look for greatness and glory, let them speak about you.

— Alon Calinao Dy