Glory Quotes - page 2

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (Thomas Gray)
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. View quote
William Beveridge
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. View quote
Francis Drake
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. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. View quote
John Steinbeck
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning. View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
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. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another. View quote
Vince Lombardi
Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave? View quote
Lord Byron
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. (Alfred Austin)
The deed is everything, the glory is naught. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory, - nothing so expensive as glory. View quote
Sydney Smith
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. View quote
Molière
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. View quote
Winston Churchill
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. View quote
Walt Whitman
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory. View quote
Betty Smith
A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking. View quote
Agnes de Mille
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they the Colonies raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. View quote
Daniel Webster
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a Theatrical Show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that; i.e. all the Glory of it. (John Adams)
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. View quote
John Quincy Adams
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks. View quote
Umberto Eco
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. View quote
Norman Cousins