Glorious Quotes

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. View quote
Bruce Lee
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness. View quote
Gilda Radner
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. View quote
Walter Scott
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions. View quote
Livy
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame. View quote
Edward Young
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Ambition first sprung from your bless'd abodes; The glorious fault of angels and of gods. View quote
Alexander Pope
She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age. View quote
John Dryden
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain? (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome. View quote
Louis Sullivan
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness. View quote
Marcus Garvey
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! View quote
John Muir
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,miserable train Turns his necessity to glorious gain. View quote
William Wordsworth
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death. View quote
Garrett Fort
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it'' (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created. View quote
Bruce Beresford
And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see. View quote
Donald Cargill
I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall. View quote
River Phoenix
What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage (civic courage as we call it in times of peace) is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared. View quote
William James