Glory Quotes - Page 7

• 

  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1085 Copy quote

• Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Shadow, Virtue

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 45), translated, 45 BC.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Literature, Murder

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.143, Penguin

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Flower

  9 Copy quote

• Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

  James Joyce

  Birthday, Passion, Other Worlds

  James Joyce, Laurence Davies (1993). “Dubliners”, p.160, Wordsworth Editions

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Ideas, Deep Thought

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.88, Tuttle Publishing

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

  Pliny the Elder

  Writing, Civilization, Written

  9 Copy quote

• The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ambition, Stronger, Overcoming

  17 Copy quote

• Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

  David Sarnoff

  Travel, Adventure, Strive

  22 Copy quote

• But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

  Edmund Burke

  Birthday, Europe, Forever

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

  71 Copy quote

  Show source

• I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.

  Harriet Tubman

  Freedom, Hands, Tree

  "Sarah H. Bradford". Book by Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.

  302 Copy quote

  Show source

• The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, People, Arise

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.156

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  God, Philosophical, Art Of War

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.106, FastPencil Inc

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Plutarch

  Family, Ancestry, Ancestor

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.12

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'll always be chasing you... Glory.

  Sidney Poitier

  Chasing

  9 Copy quote

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Humanity, Abiding, Paper

  8 Copy quote

• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  Walt Whitman

  Happiness, Art, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman (2007). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.10, Courier Corporation

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

  Edwin Markham

  Encouraging, Kindness, Adversity

  26 Copy quote

• There's no glory like those who save their country.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Country

  7 Copy quote

• He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

  Adam Clarke

  Death, Sin, Fit

  Adam Clarke (1830*). “Principles of the Christian Religion: extracted from the Clavis Biblica of the Rev. A. Clarke”, p.9

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am climbing a difficult road;
  but the glory gives me strength.

  Propertius

  Strength, Climbing, Hiking

  "Elegies, IV". Book by Sextus Propertius, poem 10. 3,

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

  Barbara Tuchman

  War, Sea, History

  26 Copy quote

• Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

  Horace

  Men, Car, Wheels

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 313-14, Satires, I. 6. 23, 1922.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

  James Russell Lowell

  Waiting

  James Russell Lowell (1859). “The Biglow papers”, p.47

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

  107 Copy quote