quotations about glory
Glory, O glory! thou hast uplifted high in life countless mortals who were nought; those I deem to be happy who have acquired glory truthfully; but those who have it falsely I consider to have it not; it is the mere wantonness of fortune that has given it to them.
EURIPIDES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight
And I'm going to drink till I get my fill.
And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it,
But I probably will.
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
A little of the glory of,
Well time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of glory days.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Glory Days", Born in the U.S.A.
Glory is safe when it is deserved; it is not so with popularity; one lasts like a mosaic, the other is effaced like the crayon drawing.
STANISLAS DE BOUFFLERS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till, by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry VI, Part I
Glory is so enchanting, that we love whatever we associate with it, even though it be death.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
The fear of Jehovah is a training in wisdom, and before glory there is humility.
SOLOMON
Proverbs 15:33
There are two things which ought to teach us to think meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?
RICK RIORDAN
The Lightning Thief
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPER
Table Talk
What was glory but something that reduced the more there were of you to share it?
IAIN M. BANKS
Surface Detail
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
JAMES THOMSON
Sophonisba
To be used as an instrument of God's glory should be our highest joy.
OLIVER CROMWELL
attributed, Day's Collacon
This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The Biglow Papers
Glory is the sun of the dead.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
La Recherche de l'Absolu
Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise,
A flood of glory bursts from all the skies.
HOMER
Iliad
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
CICERO
Tusculanarum Disputationum
There is but one thing necessary to keep the possession of true glory, which is to perserve the virtue by which it was acquired.
RICHARD STEELE
The Spectator, September 17, 1711
The paths of glory lead but to the grave--also the paths of ignominy, profligacy and skullduggery.
FRED ALLEN
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
Though men may impose upon themselves what they please by their corrupt imaginations, truth will ever keep its station; and as glory is nothing else but the shadow of virtue, it will certainly disappear at the departure of virtue.
RICHARD STEELE
The Spectator, August 9, 1711