Glory Quotes
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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.
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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
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Kong Qiu, or Master Kong as he was known, did not live to see his days of glory. During his lifetime, his views were received with scorn. But that was about two thousand five hundred years ago. A handful of his dedicated followers passed on Confucius' teachings to future generations. After Confucius' death, his followers published his teachings in the book, The Analects of Confucius.
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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!
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
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And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
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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.
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Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
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I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
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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.
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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.
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Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.
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Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.
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It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.
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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.
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Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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The glory of the one who moves everything penetrates the universe, and shines in one part more and less elsewhere.
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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.
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Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.
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Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!
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Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
