Quotes about Glory

“Glory is the child of peril.”

“Glory is the shadow of virtue.”

“All glory comes from daring to begin.”

“Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.”

“The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”

“Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?”

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”

“The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.”

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

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

“The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.”

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

“Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.”

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

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

“Sudden Glory, is the passion which maketh those Grimaces called LAUGHTER.”

“Military glory, — that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.”

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

“There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”