Glory Quotes

• The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Team
  • Single
  • Distinction

• Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  

  Confucius
  • Glory
  • Falling
  • Rising

• There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Joy
  • Eye
  • April

• There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • War
  • Honor
  • Dignity

• I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

  

  John Hancock
  • Tyranny
  • Enmity
  • Publicly

• It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Vanity
  • Vain

• I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thinking
  • Stars
  • Two

• The glory of the one who moves everything penetrates the universe, and shines in one part more and less elsewhere.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Universe
  • Glory

• So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Lord
  • Glory
  • Worried

• I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Greatness
  • Highest
  • Haste

• Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Glory
  • Phoenix
  • Expires

• Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Passion
  • Glory
  • Grimaces

• Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Laughter
  • Hopes
  • Occasion

• Be humble and you will remain entire. The sages do not display themselves, therefore they shine. They do not approve themselves, therefore they are noted. They do not praise themselves, therefore they have merit. They do not glory in themselves, therefore they excel.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Praise
  • Display
  • Entire

• I've learned during my life that if I am in hell, I make my own glory. I've also been in glory, and perhaps I've made my own hell, but I certainly don't take anyone down with me.

  

  Alberto Aguilera Valadez
  • Life
  • Hell
  • Glory

• Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.

  

  Arthur Cravan
  • Glory
  • Civilized
  • Scandal

• All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.

  

  Willard Gaylin
  • Enough
  • Independence
  • Libertarian

• Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Glory
  • Poison
  • Doses

• Glory and gore go hand in hand.

  

  Lorde
  • Hand
  • Glory
  • Gore

• To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Great
  • Past
  • Honor

• For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runners of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • History
  • Hero
  • Glory

• And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Writing
  • Guy
  • Brother

• Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

  

  William Blake
  • Heaven
  • Passions
  • Treasures

• The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Country
  • Ruins
  • Saving

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