Sunday 11 November 2012

Glory - Quotes

Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt. - William Cowper

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. - Horace

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. - Cicero

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Thomas Moore

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. - Shakespeare

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. - Unknown

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius

Past glories are poor feeding. - Isaac Asimov

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. - James Thompson 

The glory of great men must always be measured by the means they have used to obtain it. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. - Thomas Gray

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 for our living in it. - Pliny The Elder

Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain. - Phaedrus 

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