#Glory Quotes

“Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.”

“Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.”

“But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?”

“Glory is like a circle in the water”

“So doth the greater glory dim the less:A substitute shines brightly as a kingUntil a king be by.”

“I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.”

“A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.”

“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”

“The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.”

“There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die.”

“Popularity? It's glory's small change.”

“You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.”

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.”

“Of all crimes the worstIs to steal the gloryFrom the great and brave,Even more accursedThan to rob the grave.”

“More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.”

“To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.”

“....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.”

“How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.”

“Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.”

“Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes”

“We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.”

“The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.”

“Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.”

“Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.”

“There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.”

“I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.”

“In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.”

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

“Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.”

“Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.”

“We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.”

“The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.”

“I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.”

“What better way to die? It's fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!”

“And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.”

“I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.”

“For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.”

“The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.”

“All glory is fleeting.”

“The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A crutch waved out of the window; bandaged forearms made the Red Salute. It was like an allegorical picture of war; the trainload of fresh men gliding proudly up the line, the maimed men sliding slowly down, and all the while the guns on the open trucks making one's heart leap as guns always do, and reviving that pernicious feeling, so difficult to get rid of, that war *is* glorious after all.”

“Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.”

“the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end”

“There is no greater glory than to die for love.”

“It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.”

“Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.”

“To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.”

“The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.”

“(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.”

“What comes after victory? Why do people value victory so much? What is 'glory'? What kind of victory is 'glorious'?”

“We know that every father has a personal responsibility to do right by their kids - to encourage them to turn off the video games and pick up a book; to teach them the difference between right and wrong; to show them through our own example the value in treating one another as we wish to be treated. And most of all, to play an active and engaged role in their lives.”