All glory comes from daring to begin.
Eugene F. Ware
Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory.
Sydney Smith
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
Charles De Gaulle
Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
Marcus Valerius Martial
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
Eric Hoffer
Glory is the child of peril.
Tobias G. Smollett
Glory is the shadow of virtue.
Latin Proverb
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
Marcus Valerius Martial
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
William Cowper
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.
Anonymous
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
Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
Christopher Marlowe
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.
Abraham Lincoln
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
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Joseph P. Thompson
Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.
Thomas Hobbes
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.Samuel Johnson
