quotations about glory
Glory is the sun of the dead.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
La Recherche de l'Absolu
Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory, is to be guided by conscience.
KAMES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue; the height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
FRANCOIS-RENE DE CHATEAUBRIAND
attributed, Day's Collacon
Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain.
PHAEDRUS
Fables
Glory is a torch to kindle the noble mind.
SILIUS ITALICUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?
RICK RIORDAN
The Lightning Thief
This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The Biglow Papers
For I consider that the sufferings of the present time do not amount to anything in comparison with the glory that is going to be revealed in us.
PAUL
Romans 8:18
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
JAMES THOMSON
Sophonisba
If thine is the glory then mine must be the shame.
LEONARD COHEN
You Want It Darker
The fear of Jehovah is a training in wisdom, and before glory there is humility.
SOLOMON
Proverbs 15:33
To be used as an instrument of God's glory should be our highest joy.
OLIVER CROMWELL
attributed, Day's Collacon
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
CICERO
Tusculanarum Disputationum
When human glory rises high
As human glory can;
When though the king is truly great,
Still greater is the man.
EDWARD YOUNG
"Resignation"
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPER
Table Talk
Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till, by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry VI, Part I
Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight
And I'm going to drink till I get my fill.
And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it,
But I probably will.
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
A little of the glory of,
Well time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of glory days.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Glory Days", Born in the U.S.A.
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.
PLINY THE ELDER
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
Glory is so enchanting, that we love whatever we associate with it, even though it be death.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust