Glory Quotes

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

Every knee will bend before me, and every tongue shall give glory to God.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.