Glory Quotes
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The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.
Jose Rizal
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You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol.
Billy Squier
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And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced over the downs, and led a company of scarlet and golden leaves, that had dreaded this day but danced now it had come; and away with a riot of dancing and glory of colour, high in the light of the sun that had set from the sight of the fields, went wind and leaves together.
Lord Dunsany
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Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.
Plutarch
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That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.
Bahá'u'lláh
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In an hour, you'll be in hell or glory.
Cadmus M. Wilcox
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The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin.
Yuri Gagarin
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Keep to the ancient way and custom of the Church, established and confirmed by so many Saints under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And live a new life. Pray, and get others to pray, that God not abandon His Church, but reform it as He pleases, and as He sees best for us, and more to His honor and glory.
Angela Merici
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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
Oscar Wilde
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The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.
Heraclitus
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America does not fight for land, glory or riches.
Virginia Foxx
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This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.
Martin Luther
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Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation
of the human spirit.
Sebastian Bach
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They died in splendour, these who claimed no spark
Of glory save the light in a friend's eye.
Edmund Blunden
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War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Our pleasance here is all vain glory,
This false warld is but transitory.
William Dunbar
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Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.
Abraham Lincoln
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Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
William Manchester
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Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?
William Shakespeare
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Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!
J. R. R. Tolkien
