Quotes on Glory

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.

Author: Francis Assisi

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.

Author: Kenneth Branagh

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

Author: Pam Brown

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Author: Lord Byron

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

Author: Emile Cioran

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

Author: Adam Clarke

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Author: Pierre Corneille

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

Author: Pierre Corneille

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Author: William Cowper

The stars that have most glory have no rest.

Author: Samuel Daniel

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

Author: William Dunbar

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

Author: Isadora Duncan

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

Author: Jonathan Edwards

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

Author: Charles Gaulle

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.

Author: Thomas Gray

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Author: Thomas Gray

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

Author: Thomas Hobbes

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Author: Thomas Hobbes

What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.

Author: Jacky Ickx

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

Author: Thomas Kempis

How quickly passes away the glory of this world.

Author: Thomas Kempis

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

Author: Franklin Lane

He will have true glory who despises it.

Author: Titus Livius

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

Author: Belva Lockwood

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Author: Marcus Martial

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.

Author: Marcus Martial

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

Author: Nancy Mitford

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

Author: Moliere

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

Author: Malcolm Muggeridge

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

Author: Horatio Nelson

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

Author: Plutarch

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

Author: Sidney Poitier

If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team, most wouldn't stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters.

Author: Bryan Robson

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.

Author: Samuel Rutherford

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

Author: Beverly Sills

At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.

Author: John Strachan

Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.

Author: Algernon Swinburne

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 I felt like I was in heaven.

Author: Harriet Tubman

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

Author: Robert Warren

Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.

Author: George Whitefield

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

Author: Andrew Young

The true measure of success is not in the glory you receive, but in the impact you leave behind.

Author: Sophia Patel

Success is so close, you can almost hear it whispering—so put on your best listening ears and grab the boldness to chase it!

Author: Zoe Mitchell