Glory Quotes
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
Samuel Fuller
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Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory.
Sophocles
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust
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'What remains?' cried Ivanhoe; 'Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name.'
Walter Scott
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Samuel Johnson
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The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Socrates
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Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.
Ernest Hemingway
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The glory of the gospel is this: The one from whom we need to be saved is the one who has saved us.
R. C. Sproul
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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
Jacky Ickx
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I started lip-synching with "Losing My Religion." There were a few horrendous mistakes we made, but I own those mistakes. I'm embarrassed by them. I always say when I look back at anything I've ever done, it's with equal dollops of humiliation and triumphant glory.
Michael Stipe
R.E.M.
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Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
Samuel Hopkins
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I was not fated to be a priest. The true minister of God is not one who wears a cassock, but everyone who proclaims His glory by good works of service to the greatest possible number of His creatures.
Apolinario Mabini
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Can you lay your life down, so a stranger can live? Can you take what you need, but take less than you give? Could you close every day, without the glory and fame? Could you hold your head high, when no-one knows your name?
Bryan Adams
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Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.
Will Ferguson
