quotations about glory
Glory fills the world with virtue, and like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
THOMAS MOORE
Go Where Glory Waits Thee
Glory is a poison, good to be taken only in small doses.
BALZAC
attributed, Day's Collacon
The glory of the body is indeed visible, and Heaven is a glorious visible place, but yet that which is the greatest glory is spiritual, the soul made holy and perfect.
ANTHONY BURGESS
Spiritual Refining: or, a Treatise of Grace and Assurance
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE
Satires
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
I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.
MAYA ANGELOU
interview, 1990
The Lord will never use you till all that is poured out, and you are wiped quite clean and put away with nothing of yourself remaining in you, wherein you may glory. All the saints who are ready to go to heaven feel themselves to be less than the least; but those professors who are by no means ready for glory are highly self conscious, and feel that there is a great deal in them which is very commendable.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
THOMAS GRAY
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
When soldiers break and run, good-bye glory.
HOMER
The Iliad
Remember that the conquest of glory excels the glory of conquest.
DMITRY SERGEYEVICH MEREZHKOVSKY
The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci: the Forerunner
Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another.
MADELINE MILLER
The Song of Achilles
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue; the height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
FRANCOIS-RENE DE CHATEAUBRIAND
attributed, Day's Collacon
The paths of glory lead but to the grave--also the paths of ignominy, profligacy and skullduggery.
FRED ALLEN
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
I have ventur'd,
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
This many summers in a sea of glory,
But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride
At length broke under me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry VIII
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
JAMES THOMSON
Sophonisba
The fear of Jehovah is a training in wisdom, and before glory there is humility.
SOLOMON
Proverbs 15:33
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
Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory, is to be guided by conscience.
KAMES
attributed, Day's Collacon
If thine is the glory then mine must be the shame.
LEONARD COHEN
You Want It Darker