Quotes
Quotes about Glory
At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what now you feel;Achilles absent was Achilles still:Yet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. - Iliad, The.
"There beauty half her glory veils, In cabs, those gondolas on wheels."
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
A sentinel angel sitting high in glory Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory: "Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story!"
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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.
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. - The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge, 1966.
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
...there is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
Popularity is glory's small change.
We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory. [Lat., Trahimur omnes laudis studio, et optimus quisque maxime gloria ducitur.]
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.
I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
To seek a laurel wreath from a bride-cake. [To seek glory by some trifling performance. A carpet knight.]
The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. "God wishes," said Calvin, "that one should put aside all humanity when it is a question of striving for His glory.".
Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals have no malice, hence also no laughter. They never savor the sudden glory of Schadenfreude. It was its infectious quality that made of laughter a medium of mutuality.
