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Glory is the shadow of virtue.
-Proverb
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The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is their gray head.
-Bible
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never-failing skill,
He treasures up His bright designs,
And works His sovereign will.
Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take,
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy, and shall break
In blessings on your head.
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust Him for His grace;
Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.
His purposes will ripen fast,
Unfolding every hour;
The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet will be the flower.
Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan His work in vain:
God is His own interpreter,
And he will make it plain.
-William Cowper, Light Shining out of Darkness
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You told me, I remember, glory, built
On selfish principles, is shame and guilt;
The deeds that men admire as half divine,
Stark naught, because corrupt in their design.
Strange doctrine this! that without scruple tears
The laurel that the very lightning spares;
Brings down the warrior
http://www.ccel.org/c/cowper/works/table-talk.htm
-William Cowper, Table Talk
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We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
-Wayne Dyer
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
-Epicurus
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
-Charles De Gaulle
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The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
-Thomas Gray
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The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.
-Baron Grimm
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Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.
-Thomas Hobbes
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Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
-Eric Hoffer
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No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.
-David Jenkins
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
-Samuel Johnson
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Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.
-Abraham Lincoln
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There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.
-Lope de Vega
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Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
-Christopher Marlowe
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Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
-Marcus Valerius Martial
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Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
-Marcus Valerius Martial
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-Napoleon
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The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.
-Thomas Paine
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My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.
-Peace Pilgrim
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I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
-William Shakespeare
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys it is all hell.
-Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
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Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
-Betty Smith
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Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory.
-Sydney Smith
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Glory is the child of peril.
-Tobias G. Smollett
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The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
-Socrates
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What is called vainglory is self-satisfaction, nourished by nothing but the good opinion of the multitude, so that when that is withdrawn, the satisfaction, that is to say, the chief good which every one loves, ceases. For this reason those who glory in the good opinion of the multitude anxiously and with daily care strive, labour, and struggle to preserve their fame. For the multitude is changeable and fickle, so that fame, if it be not preserved, soon passes away. As every one, moreover, is desirous to catch the praises of the people, one person will readily destroy the fame of another; and, consequently, as the object of contention is what is commonly thought to be the highest good, a great desire arises on the part of every one to keep down his fellows by every possible means, and he who at last comes off conqueror boasts more because he has injured another person than because he has profited himself. This glory of self-satisfaction, therefore, is indeed vain, for it is really no glory.
-Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza, Ethics
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Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
-Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
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There's no glory like those who save their country.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
-Joseph P. Thompson
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I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
-Thomas Traherne
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God gave man the challenge of raw materials -- not the ease of finished things. He left the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation.
-Source Unknown
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True glory lies in noble deeds.
-Source Unknown
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The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.
-Source Unknown
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All glory comes from daring to begin.
-Eugene F. Ware
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Books about Glory
