quotations about glory
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
JAMES THOMSON
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Though men may impose upon themselves what they please by their corrupt imaginations, truth will ever keep its station; and as glory is nothing else but the shadow of virtue, it will certainly disappear at the departure of virtue.
RICHARD STEELE
The Spectator, August 9, 1711
Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight
And I'm going to drink till I get my fill.
And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it,
But I probably will.
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
A little of the glory of,
Well time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of glory days.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Glory Days", Born in the U.S.A.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave--also the paths of ignominy, profligacy and skullduggery.
FRED ALLEN
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
There is but one thing necessary to keep the possession of true glory, which is to perserve the virtue by which it was acquired.
RICHARD STEELE
The Spectator, September 17, 1711
The fear of Jehovah is a training in wisdom, and before glory there is humility.
SOLOMON
Proverbs 15:33
If personal glory is the greatest good, then by sacrificing all, including one's life, for the city, one makes a net gain, not a sacrifice, if the greatest glory is thereby achieved.
MICHAEL PALMER
Love of Glory and the Common Good
Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till, by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry VI, Part I
Glory, O glory! thou hast uplifted high in life countless mortals who were nought; those I deem to be happy who have acquired glory truthfully; but those who have it falsely I consider to have it not; it is the mere wantonness of fortune that has given it to them.
EURIPIDES
attributed, Day's Collacon
To be used as an instrument of God's glory should be our highest joy.
OLIVER CROMWELL
attributed, Day's Collacon
Glory is the casual gift of thoughtless crowds.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
attributed, Day's Collacon
Glory is safe when it is deserved; it is not so with popularity; one lasts like a mosaic, the other is effaced like the crayon drawing.
STANISLAS DE BOUFFLERS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Glory is the sun of the dead.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
La Recherche de l'Absolu
Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise,
A flood of glory bursts from all the skies.
HOMER
Iliad
When a man measures out glory for himself he always heaps the half bushel.
H. W. SHAW
attributed, Day's Collacon
Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?
RICK RIORDAN
The Lightning Thief
What was glory but something that reduced the more there were of you to share it?
IAIN M. BANKS
Surface Detail
For I consider that the sufferings of the present time do not amount to anything in comparison with the glory that is going to be revealed in us.
PAUL
Romans 8:18
Prefer glory that will last forever, rather than that which lasts but a day.
POMPEY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
CICERO
Tusculanarum Disputationum