Glory Quotes
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An honest God is the noblest work of man. (Quote by - Charles J. Ingersoll)
This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. (Quote by - Edwin Markham)
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. (Quote by - Pam Brown)
He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it. (Quote by - Hector Hugh Munro)
What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things. (Quote by - Algernon Charles Swinburne)
It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory. (Quote by - Wynton Marsalis)
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. (Quote by - James Joyce)
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. (Quote by - Plutarch)
And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development. (Quote by - Will Arnett)
In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens. (Quote by - David Brin)
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. (Quote by - Robert Penn Warren)
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. (Quote by - Salvador Dali)
I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength. (Quote by - Sextus Propertius)
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. (Quote by - William Tecumseh Sherman)
I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within. (Quote by - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson)
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still warm waters. (Quote by - Bible)
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork. (Quote by - Bible)
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
There is no road of flowers leading to glory (Quote by - Jean de La Fontaine)
If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team, most wouldn't stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters. (Quote by - Bryan Robson)
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory. (Quote by - John Strachan)
Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it. (Quote by - Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself. (Quote by - John Gielgud)
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. (Quote by - Jane Porter)
A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions. (Quote by - Thomas Brooks)
The first in glory, as the first in place. (Quote by - Homer)
God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love. (Quote by - Mary Baker Eddy)
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare. (Quote by - Oriana Fallaci)
He will have true glory who despises it. (Quote by - Titus Livius)
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. (Quote by - Voltaire)
I'll always be chasing you... Glory. (Quote by - Sidney Poitier)
I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience. (Quote by - Sophia Bush)
Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. (Quote by - Paul Tillich)
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. (Quote by - James A. Baldwin)
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm. (Quote by - William Cowper)
The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. (Quote by - Ovid)
America does not fight for land, glory or riches. (Quote by - Virginia Foxx)
I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after! (Quote by - Mercedes McCambridge)
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. (Quote by - Paul Tillich)
Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent. (Quote by - Neil Sheehan)
For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making. (Quote by - Franklin Knight Lane)
There is no respect of persons with God. (Quote by - Romans)
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)
I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me. (Quote by - Mike Epps)
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake. (Quote by - George Ripley)
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven. (Quote by - Harriet Tubman)
If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes. (Quote by - Jacques-Louis David)
I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'. (Quote by - Morgan Freeman)
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe. (Quote by - Brian Greene)
In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal. (Quote by - Lytton Strachey)
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph. (Quote by - A. Alvarez)
God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single lane. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter. (Quote by - Thomas Hobbes)
Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee, Oh! still remember me. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life. (Quote by - Jose Marti)
One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. (Quote by - Walter Scott)
Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave? (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Age is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee. (Quote by - Renee Zellweger)
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. (Quote by - Socrates)
Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution. (Quote by - Judith Martin)
How quickly passes away the glory of this world. (Quote by - Thomas Kempis)
Nearer, my God, to Thee. (Quote by - Sarah Flower Adams)
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. (Quote by - Isaac Disraeli)
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. (Quote by - Julius Caesar)
But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere. (Quote by - Origen)
So may glory from defect arise. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off! (Quote by - Gavin MacLeod)
The glory dies not, and the grief is past. (Quote by - Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges)
Like madness is the glory of this life As this pomp shows to a little oil and root. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Everyone is in a small way the image of God. (Quote by - Marcus Manilius)
I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps. (Quote by - Horatio Nelson)
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him. (Quote by - Plutarch)
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. (Quote by - Bible)
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. (Quote by - John Calvin)
We trust, Sir, that God is on our side. "It is more important to know that we are on God's side. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
God's in His Heaven. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee. (Quote by - Augustus Toplady)
I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod. (Quote by - Bliss Carman)
No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice. (Quote by - Charles Curothe)
The glory of Him who Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when the world He created. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Glory is the shadow of virtue. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)
A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill. (Quote by - Pericles)
A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing, Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning. (Quote by - Mikhail Lermontov)
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. (Quote by - Jose Marti)
Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. (Quote by - Cornelius a Lapide)
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. (Quote by - Kurt Vonnegut)
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late. (Quote by - Martial)
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. (Quote by - Thomas Hobbes)
Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton. (Quote by - George III)
Glory is never where virtue is not. (Quote by - Martin le Franc)
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. (Quote by - Betty Smith)
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
No flowery road leads to glory. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
The divine essence itself is love and wisdom. (Quote by - Emmanuel Swedenborg)
O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth. (Quote by - Thomas a Kempis)
Mine eyes have seen the coming of the glory of the Lord. (Quote by - Julia Ward Howe)
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. (Quote by - Horace)
I do not care for the money, just for the glory. (Quote by - Anna Held)
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. (Quote by - William Barclay)
Consciousness is the glory of creation. (Quote by - James Broughton)
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. (Quote by - John Updike)
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it. (Quote by - Krist Novoselic)
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name. (Quote by - Zebulon Pike)
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. (Quote by - George Bancroft)
Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable. (Quote by - Timothy Dalton)
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. (Quote by - Karel Capek)
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. (Quote by - Johathan Edwards)
Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. (Quote by - Henry James)
Fear that man who fears not God. (Quote by - Abd-el-Kader)
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. (Quote by - Emile M. Cioran)
He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait. (Quote by - Richard Lovelace)
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging. (Quote by - Francis of Assisi)
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God. (Quote by - Sai Baba)
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. (Quote by - Robert Browning Hamilton)
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. (Quote by - Napolean Bonaparte)
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in rerun. (Quote by - John McCain)
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. (Quote by - Joseph P. Thompson)
Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain. (Quote by - Phaedrus)
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. (Quote by - Confucius)
The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon! (Quote by - Edie Brickell)
The deed is everything, the glory is naught. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light. (Quote by - Beverly Sills)
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. (Quote by - Charles De Gaulle)
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard. (Quote by - James J. Corbett)
Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold. (Quote by - Vanna Bonta)
In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ. (Quote by - William Gurnall)
And say my glory was I had such friends. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory. (Quote by - Adam Clarke)
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy. (Quote by - Samuel Rutherford)
Glory - once achieved, what is it worth? (Quote by - Emile M. Cioran)
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. (Quote by - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand)
Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history? (Quote by - Gary North)
