Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
~By Sai Baba ~
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.
~By Pam Brown ~
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
~By Aristotle ~
Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
~By Lord Byron ~
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.
~By Krist Novoselic ~
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
~By Francis Drake ~
Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.
~By Judith Martin ~
How quickly passes away the glory of this world.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
~By Thomas Moore ~
The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
~By William Wordsworth ~
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.
~By Shelby Foote ~
I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.
~By Sophia Bush ~
Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
~By Paul Tillich ~
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
~By James Joyce ~
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
America does not fight for land, glory or riches.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
~By Bruce Lee ~
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
~By Walt Whitman ~
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.
~By Horatio Nelson ~
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.
~By Samuel Rutherford ~
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
~By William Wordsworth ~
The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.
~By George Whitefield ~
There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.
~By William C. Bryant ~
To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
~By Belva Lockwood ~
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
~By Epicurus ~
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.
~By Will Arnett ~
Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.
~By Renee Zellweger ~
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
~By George Bancroft ~
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.
~By Brian Greene ~
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
~By Walter Scott ~
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
~By Julius Caesar ~
Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?
~By Gary North ~
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
~By Plutarch ~
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.
~By Beverly Sills ~
I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
~By Thomas Gray ~
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
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.
~By Agnes de Mille ~
I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
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.
~By Jose Marti ~
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
~By Norman Cousins ~
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
~By King Hussein ~
If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team, most wouldn't stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters.
~By Bryan Robson ~
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.
~By Jeff Miller ~
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.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
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!
~By Edie Brickell ~
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.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
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.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
~By Jean Racine ~
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
~By Joseph Addison ~
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
~By Thucydides ~
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
~By Johannes Sebastian Bach ~
For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.
~By Franklin Knight Lane ~
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.
~By Samuel Rutherford ~
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.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
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.
~By Hector Hugh Munro ~
I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
~By Horatio Nelson ~
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
~By Alfred Austin ~
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
~By Origen ~
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
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.
~By Stephen Phillips ~
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
~By Jose Marti ~
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.
~By Troy Perry ~
Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
~By John Gielgud ~
This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.
~By Kenny Marchant ~
Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation.
~By Sam Houston ~
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
~By Harriet Tubman ~
You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.
~By Roger Kahn ~
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.
~By George Ripley ~
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
~By Edwin Markham ~
It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!
~By Gavin MacLeod ~
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
~By Mikhail Lermontov ~
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
~By Karel Capek ~
The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.
~By Girolamo Savonarola ~
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
~By Paul Tillich ~
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
~By William Manchester ~
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
~By Marcelene Cox ~
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
~By Robert Penn Warren ~
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.
~By William Dunbar ~
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
~By Charles de Lint ~
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
~By John Foxe ~
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.
~By George Eliot ~
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
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