Glory Quotes

• The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

  Pierre Corneille

  Perseverance, Work, Effort

  "Character: Pauline". "Polyeucte" by Pierre Corneille, act IV, scene v, 1642.

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• The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. As certain religions of the world say that a man who does not believe in a Personal God outside of himself is an atheist, so the Vedanta says, a man who does not believe in himself is an atheist. Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Atheist, Believe

  Swami Vivekananda (2017). “Vedanta: Voice of Freedom”, p.353, Vedanta Society of St. Louis

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• To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!

  Chinua Achebe

  Real, Mean, Names

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “The Education of a British-Protected Child”, p.67, Penguin UK

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  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.

  Thucydides

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

  Moliere

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Glorious

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

  Pierre Corneille

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Atheist

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

  Honore de Balzac

  Taken, Poison, Dose

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• Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.

  William Shakespeare

  Guilty, Crime, Grows

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1453, BookCaps Study Guides

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• He will have true glory who despises it.

  Livy

  Despise

  "History of Rome" by Livy, Book XXII, sec. 39,

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• Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

  Pope Francis

  Fall, Errors, Judging

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• Though nothing can bring back the hour
  Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

  William Wordsworth

  Sympathy, Flower, Condolences

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 177 (1807)

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• Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Soul, Spurs

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• No flowery road leads to glory.
  [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

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• Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.

  Julia Ward Howe

  God, War, Eye

  "Battle Hymn of the Republic" l. 1 (1862)

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• Glory is the child of peril.

  Tobias Smollett

  Children, Peril

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• Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Happiness, Laughter, Philosophical

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Love, Kings, War

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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!

  Mercedes McCambridge

  People, Another Chance, Next

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• Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Men, Light

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel”, p.96, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ashes, Too Late, Late

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• 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.

  Silvia Cartwright

  War, Character, Vivid

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• She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!

  George Meredith

  Love, Winning, Conquer

  'Love in the Valley' st. 2

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• The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

  William Wordsworth

  Sunshine, Earth, Passed Away

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 1

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