Glory Quotes

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

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.

Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

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

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

And say my glory was I had such friends.

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.

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

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days.

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.