quotations about glory
Prefer glory that will last forever, rather than that which lasts but a day.
POMPEY
attributed, Day's Collacon
For I consider that the sufferings of the present time do not amount to anything in comparison with the glory that is going to be revealed in us.
PAUL
Romans 8:18
The love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of it creates a great man.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD
attributed, Day's Collacon
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 THE ELDER
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
There is but one thing necessary to keep the possession of true glory, which is to perserve the virtue by which it was acquired.
RICHARD STEELE
The Spectator, September 17, 1711
What was glory but something that reduced the more there were of you to share it?
IAIN M. BANKS
Surface Detail
The way to prove superior to death is to die with glory.
AL-MUGHALLIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Like madness is the glory of this life
As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Life of Timon of Athens
When a man measures out glory for himself he always heaps the half bushel.
H. W. SHAW
attributed, Day's Collacon
Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend;
And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.
HOMER
The Iliad