Quotes of Honour - somelinesforyou

“ Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. ”

- George Washington

“ All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears. ”

- Joaquin Miller

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

- William Cowper

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

- Socrates

“ The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crown not on my soul. ”

- Thomas Gray

“ Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It is the glory and good of Art,That Art remains the one way possibleOf speaking truths, to mouths like mine at least. ”

- Robert Browning

“ We rise in glory as we sink in pride.". ”

- Andrew Young

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

- Lope de Vega

“ I see my reputation is at stake:My fame is shewdly gor'd. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. ”

- Bible

“ Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war? ”

- Hermocrates of Syracuse

“ In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory. ”

- Cicero

“ There is no glory in outstripping donkeys. ”

- Martial

“ Military glory — that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Celebrate what you want to see more of. ”

- Thomas J. Peters

“ The post of honour is a private station. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them. ”

- Moliere

“ Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. ”

- Lucius Accius

“ To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late. ”

- Martial

“ Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait. ”

- Richard Lovelace

“ Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. ”

- John Wooden

“ Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. ”

- Plutarch

“ Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure. ”

- George Sand

“ Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more than grace, it is glory in its infancy. ”

- Samuel Rutherford

“ Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. ”

- William Cowper
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