Glory Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

44 Glory Quotes
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“Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee, Oh! still remember me.”
Thomas Moore Quotes
Source: Go Where Glory Waits Thee
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
Thomas Moore Quotes
Source: Go Where Glory Waits Thee
“The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. [Lat., Immensum gloria calcar habet.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes
Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (IV, 2, 36)
“Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain. [Lat., Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.]”
Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia) Quotes
Source: Fables (III, 17, 12)
“Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 300)
“I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.”
Sextus Propertius Quotes
Source: Elegioe (IV, 10, 3)
“Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.”
Sir Walter Scott Quotes
Source: Old Mortality (ch. XXXIV, introductory stanza), discovered in "The Bee", Edinburgh, Oct. 12, 1791, s
“Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Pucelle at I, ii)
“Like madness is the glory of this life As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Apemantus at I, ii)
“Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
“Glory is the shadow of virtue.”
Latin Proverb Quotes
“To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.”
Martial Quotes
“True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
“Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.”
Oriana Fallaci Quotes
“Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.”
Martial Quotes
“Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.”
William Cowper Quotes
“The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.”
Anonymous Quotes
“Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.”
Joseph P. Thompson Quotes
“For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.”
Charles de Gaulle Quotes