The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is their gray head.

— Bible

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

— Bonaparte, Napoleon

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

— Byron, Lord

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

— Cicero, Marcus T.

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

— Cowper, William

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

— Gaulle, Charles De

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

— Gray, Thomas

The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.

— Grimm, Baron

Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.

— Hobbes, Thomas

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

— Hoffer, Eric

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.

— Jenkins, David

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

— Johnson, Samuel

Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.

— Lincoln, Abraham

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

— Lope de Vega

Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?

— Marlowe, Christopher

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

— Martial, Marcus Valerius

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.

— Martial, Marcus Valerius

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

— Paine, Thomas

Glory is the shadow of virtue.

— Proverb, Latin

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

— Shakespeare, William

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

— Sherman, William T.

Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory.

— Smith, Sydney

Glory is the child of peril.

— Smollett, Tobias G.

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

— Socrates

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

— Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

— Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

— Thompson, Joseph P.

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.

— Traherne, Thomas

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.

— Unknown, Source

True glory lies in noble deeds.

— Unknown, Source

The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.

— Unknown, Source

All glory comes from daring to begin.

— Ware, Eugene F.