Quotes
Quotes about Glory
What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe!
Ye sons of France, awake to glory!
Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise!
Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary,
Behold their tears and hear their cries!
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.
The hoary head is a crown of glory.
These were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of the times.
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame.
Look at everthing as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. [Lat., Etiam illud adjungo, saepius ad laudem atque virtutem naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valisse doctrinam.]
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child of the skies! Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold, While ages on ages thy splendors unfold.
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?
Sorrow and the scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather; Ah me! this glory and this grief Agree not well together!
O child! O new-born denizen Of life's great city! on thy head The glory of morn is shed, Like a celestial benison! Here at the portal thou dost stand, And with thy little hand Thou openest the mysterious gate Into the future's undiscovered land.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
