Quote: Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Author: Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor
Quote: Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave? Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Quote: Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. Author: William Cowper 1731-1800, British Poet
Quote: For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. Author: Charles De Gaulle 1890-1970, French President during World War II
Quote: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Author: Thomas Gray 1716-1771, British Poet
Quote: The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them. Author: Baron Grimm
Quote: Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter. Author: Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679, British Philosopher
Quote: Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: 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. Author: David Jenkins 1925-, British Ecclesiastic, Bishop of Durham
Quote: The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously. Author: Lope de Vega 1562-1635, Spanish Playwright
Quote: Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis? Author: Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593, British Dramatist, Poet
Quote: Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes. Author: Marcus Valerius Martial 40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist
Quote: Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. Author: Marcus Valerius Martial 40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist
Quote: The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. Author: Thomas Paine 1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer
Quote: Glory is the shadow of virtue. Author: Latin Proverb Sayings of Latin Origin
Quote: I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys it is all hell. Author: William T. Sherman 1820-1891, American Army Commander
Quote: Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory. Author: Sydney Smith 1771-1845, British Writer, Clergyman
Quote: Glory is the child of peril. Author: Tobias G. Smollett 1721-1771, Scottish Novelist, Surgeon
Quote: The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens
Quote: Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. Author: Charles Maurice De Talleyrand 1754-1838, French Statesman
Quote: There's no glory like those who save their country. Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, British Poet
Quote: Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. Author: Joseph P. Thompson
Quote: 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. Author: Thomas Traherne 1636-1674, British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic
Quote: 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. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The fire of glory is the torch of the mind. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: True glory lies in noble deeds. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: All glory comes from daring to begin. Author: Eugene F. Ware American Lawyer, Poet