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 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
When soldiers break and run, good-bye glory.
HOMER
The Iliad
I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.
MAYA ANGELOU
interview, 1990
Remember that the conquest of glory excels the glory of conquest.
DMITRY SERGEYEVICH MEREZHKOVSKY
The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci: the Forerunner
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE
Satires
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
THOMAS MOORE
Go Where Glory Waits Thee
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
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
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
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
O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
THOMAS À KEMPIS
Imitation of Christ
What do you do when humility leads to still greater glory?
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Glory is a torch to kindle the noble mind.
SILIUS ITALICUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
THOMAS GRAY
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
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
Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain.
PHAEDRUS
Fables
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.
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