Glory Quotes

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength. (Propertius)
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. View quote
Plutarch
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. View quote
Confucius
Don't think, Feel, it is like a finger pointing out to the moon, don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory. View quote
Bruce Lee
When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory. View quote
Pierre Corneille
I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything the sun came like gold through the trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven. View quote
Harriet Tubman
Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
There is no road of flowers leading to glory. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. View quote
John Updike
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. (William Cowper)
The greater the effort, the greater the glory. View quote
Pierre Corneille
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory? View quote
Charles de Lint
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. View quote
George Eliot
Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory. View quote
Irena Sendler
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. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Glory - once achieved, what is it worth? View quote
Emil Cioran
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. View quote
Emil Cioran
He will have true glory who despises it. View quote
Livy
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. (Joseph Addison)
It is the glory and the good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to minds like mine at least. View quote
Robert Browning
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. View quote
Edith Sitwell
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us... There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you... We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. View quote
Marianne Williamson