My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and
The search for Glory
Brian Williams, As a volunteer firefighter in his young days
Back in my day, the thing to do was to loop our arm over the pole, (hanging off the back of the truck), continue
James Tobin
Their temperaments and longings had pushed them on a path towards the unknown – never the path of people who wish to pile up
Adam Smith
The rich man glories in his riches, because he feels that they naturally draw upon him the attention of the world…At the thought of
Harpers critic
Hollywood is wherever the young and the ignorant expect to get the triumph without the toil, the reputation without the virtues, the fame without
Henry Fielding
And do not the warm, rapturous sensations which we feel from the consciousness of an honest, noble, generous, benevolent action convey more delight to
Danny Blanchflower
The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It’s nothing of the kind. The game is about glory.
Clotilde Rey, To her grandson, Winemaker Angelo Gaja
A life making wine will reward you in three ways. First, you can make money – enough to buy more land and expand the
Pericles, Athenian statesman
For it is only love of honor that never grows old; and it is, not gain as some would have it, that rejoices the