quotations about glory
Glory can be safely despised by those only who have fairly won it.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
MARTIAL
Epigrams
Past glories are poor feeding.
ISAAC ASIMOV
Foundation
No guts, no glory.
FREDERICK C. BLESSE
No Guts, No Glory
We rise in glory, as we sink in pride:
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts
No flowery road leads to glory.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Fables
Man is but the dream of a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet.
PINDAR
Odes of Pindar
Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires,
Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.
LORD BYRON
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
JESUS
Matthew 6:13
We prepare for glory by failing until we don't.
CRAIG FERGUSON
American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.
CICERO
Pro archia
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A Farewell to Arms
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience--the knowledge that our might deeds will come to the ears of our contemporaries or "of those that are to be." We are ready to sacrifice our true, transitory self for the imaginary eternal self we are building up, by our heroic deeds, in the opinion and imagination of others.
ERIC HOFFER
The True Believer
O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.
C. H. SPURGEON
Grace: God's Unmerited Favor
Glory is more than a word. Glory is an acknowledgement of God for his people to know and see how excellent he is. Glory is the light that shines from heaven so we can all recognize the glorious wonderful power of God.
GARRICK BRIDGEFORTH SR.
Words of the Bible Explained
Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fires the greatest smoke.
EDWARD YOUNG
A Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate of Human Life
Love of glory a virtue! A strange virtue truly, that calls to its aid the cooperation of all the vices, that finds stimulants in ambition, envy, vanity, sometimes even avarice! Would Titus have been Titus had he had as his ministers Sejanus, Narcissus, and Tigellinus?
CHAMFORT
The Cynic's Breviary
For the glory born of Goodness
Never dies,
And its flag is not half-masted
In the skies.
BRET HARTE
"The Queen's Death"
God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent. According as this is cultivated in princes, it produces the greatest good or the greatest evil. Where sovereigns have it by impressions received from education only, it creates an ambitious rather than a noble mind: where it is the natural bent of the prince's inclination, it prompts him to the pursuit of things truly glorious.
RICHARD STEELE
The Spectator, August 9, 1711