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Avoid shame but do not seek glory nothing so expensive as glory.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Military glory the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.
Is it not passing brave to be a king,
And ride in triumph through Persepolis?
I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.
What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.
Pliny.
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
It is by what we ourselves have done, and not by what others have done for us, that we shall be remembered by after ages. It is by thought that has aroused the intellect from its slumbers, which has given luster to virtue and dignity to truth, or by those examples which have inflamed the soul with the love of goodness, and not by means of sculptured marble, that I hold communion with Shakespeare and Milton, with Johnson and Burke, with Howard and Wilberforce.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. Without that, the conqueror is nought but the foist slave.
As to be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man.
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
Like madness is the glory of this life.
He that first likened glory to a shadow, did better than he was aware of; they are both vain. Glory, also, like the shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
By skillful conduct and artificial means a person may make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel be wanting, all is vanity, and will not last.
Two things ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory that the very best have had their calumniators, and the very worst their panegyrists.
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothings is finer, except virtue. The height if happiness would be to unite both in this life.
The shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.
Those great actions whose luster dazzles us are represented by politicians as the effects of deep design, whereas they are commonly the effects of caprice and passion.
The glory of a people, and of an age, is always the work of a small number of great men , and disappears with them.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845_ English writer, clergyman.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Thomas Gray (1716-1771) English Poet.
Military glory the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Is it not passing brave to be a king,
And ride in triumph through Persepolis?
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist, poet.
I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.
What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) French novelist.
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.
Pliny.
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Cicero.
It is by what we ourselves have done, and not by what others have done for us, that we shall be remembered by after ages. It is by thought that has aroused the intellect from its slumbers, which has given luster to virtue and dignity to truth, or by those examples which have inflamed the soul with the love of goodness, and not by means of sculptured marble, that I hold communion with Shakespeare and Milton, with Johnson and Burke, with Howard and Wilberforce.
Francis Wayland.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. Without that, the conqueror is nought but the foist slave.
Thompson.
As to be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man.
Addison.
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Goldsmith.
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
Cowper.
Like madness is the glory of this life.
Shakespeare.
He that first likened glory to a shadow, did better than he was aware of; they are both vain. Glory, also, like the shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
Montaigne.
By skillful conduct and artificial means a person may make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel be wanting, all is vanity, and will not last.
Goethe.
Two things ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory that the very best have had their calumniators, and the very worst their panegyrists.
Colton.
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothings is finer, except virtue. The height if happiness would be to unite both in this life.
Chateaubriand.
The shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.
Home.
Those great actions whose luster dazzles us are represented by politicians as the effects of deep design, whereas they are commonly the effects of caprice and passion.
Rochefoucauld.
The glory of a people, and of an age, is always the work of a small number of great men , and disappears with them.
Grimm.
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