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

"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long." - Cicero

"Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?" - JEAN GIRAUDOUX, Amphitryon 38

"The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour,
The paths of glory lead but to the grave."
- THOMAS GRAY, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

"There is no road of flowers leading to glory." - JEAN DE LA FONTAINE, Fables

"To our ashes glory comes too late." - MARTIAL, Epigrams

"One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name." - THOMAS OSBERT MORDAUNT, Verses Written During the War

"Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,
nothing so expensive as glory."
- SYDNEY SMITH, quoted in Lady Holland's Memoir

"How quickly passes away the glory of this world." - THOMAS KEMPIS, Imitation of Christ

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Roosevelt, Theodore