Glory Quotes

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.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

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

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

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

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

The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development.

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.

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

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

The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.

I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

I do not care for the money, just for the glory.

I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness.

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

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.

I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.