Quotes of Glory - somelinesforyou

“ Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. ”

- William Shakespeare

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

- William Cowper

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

- Socrates

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

- William Tecumseh Sherman

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

- Lope de Vega

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

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

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

- Sydney Smith

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

- Eric Hoffer

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

- Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

“ Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

- Joseph P. Thompson

“ This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur. ”

- James Russell Lowell

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

- Charles de Gaulle

“ The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. ”

- Thucydides

“ The glory of Him who Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when the world He created. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ And say my glory was I had such friends. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out. ”

- Al Gore

“ All glory comes from daring to begin. ”

- Eugene F. Ware

“ The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. ”

- Dante Alighieri

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

- Marcus Valerius Martial

“ Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Glory is the child of peril. ”

- Tobias G. Smollett

“ Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. ”

- Marcus Valerius Martial

“ I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. ”

- Julius Caesar

“ 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

“ 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

“ It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. ”

- Plutarch

“ Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait. ”

- Richard Lovelace

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

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, The maid's romantic wish, the chemist's flame, And poet's vision of eternal fame. ”

- Alexander Pope
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