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 | "Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,?nothing so expensive as
glory." | |
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Sydney Smith
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| "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." | |
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Napoléon Bonaparte
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| "Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge
itself, Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt." | |
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William Cowper
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| "Look at everthing as though you were seeing it either for the first
or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory." | |
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Betty Smith
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| "Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves." | |
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James Thompson
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| "Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world
proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a
name." | |
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Sir Walter Scott
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| "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow"r, And all that beauty, all
that wealth e"er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory
lead but to the grave." | |
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Thomas Gray
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| "The fire of glory is the torch of the mind." | |
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Unknown
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| "The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful
pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests." | |
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Epicurus
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| "The greater the obstacle, the more the glory in overcoming
it." | |
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Jean Baptiste Moliére
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| "There is no glory in outstripping donkeys." | |
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Marcus Valerius Martialis
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| "We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man
is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves,
even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their
names." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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