Famous quotes on Glory

"Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses."
~ Honore de Balzac

"Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living."
~ Pierre Jean de Beranger

"Glory is safe when it is deserved; it is not so with popularity; one lasts like a mosaic, the other is effaced like a crayon drawing."
~ Marquis Stanislas Jean de Boufflers

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no road of flowers leading to glory"
~ Jean de La Fontaine