„Think where man’s glory most begins and endsAnd say my glory was I had such friends.“

— W.B. Yeats

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„In my end is my beginning — that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean? And just where does my story begin? I must try and think…“
— Agatha Christie
„I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.“
— Sylvia Plath
„Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God's glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad's of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved to do this, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many and how great soever.“
— Jonathan Edwards
„Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.“
— Martin Heidegger
„I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy,To share with me in glory any more:Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere;“
— William Shakespeare
„The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.“
— W.E.B. Du Bois
„Don't think, feel…. it is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!“
— Bruce Lee
„Because I do not hope to knowThe infirm glory of the positive hourBecause I do not thinkBecause I know I shall not knowThe one veritable transitory powerBecause I cannot drinkThere, where trees flower, and springs flow, for there is nothing again“
— T.S. Eliot