Glory Quotes

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

I'm just basking in the glory.

I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

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.

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.

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

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

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

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

I give God all the glory. And try to move on. Come home and hug my wife and my children. And thank God for every day that I have with my family.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

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.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

We've had drive-by shootings. I've been spat on, slapped, shot at. One guy tried to stab me with a broken beer bottle. But the way we look at it, if people do the worst they can, we'll still wake up in glory.

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

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.

Consciousness is the glory of creation.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

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.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.