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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.