Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
~By Salvador Dali ~
The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.
~By Nick Mancuso ~
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
~By Jean Racine ~
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
~By Mikhail Lermontov ~
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
~By James Joyce ~
We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
~By Bruce Lee ~
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 ~
If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.
~By Jacques-Louis David ~
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
~By John Steinbeck ~
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 ~
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
~By Barbara Tuchman ~
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
~By Epicurus ~
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
~By Sallust ~
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
~By John Updike ~
What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.
~By John Biddle ~
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
~By Marcus Valerius Martial ~
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
~By John Adams ~
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
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 ~
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 Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
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.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
~By Paul Tillich ~
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
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 ~
No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.
~By Sextus Propertius ~
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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 ~
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
~By William Beveridge ~
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 ~
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 ~
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
~By Robert Penn Warren ~
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 ~
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 ~
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
~By Al Gore ~
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 ~
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
~By Alan Shepard ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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 ~
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 ~
What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
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 ~
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 ~
America does not fight for land, glory or riches.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
~By Pericles ~
There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
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 ~
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
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 ~
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
~By Thomas Gray ~
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
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 ~
The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
~By Kenneth Branagh ~
I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.
~By Sextus Propertius ~
Every knee will bend before me, and every tongue shall give glory to God.
~By Jesus Christ ~
I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.
~By Mike Epps ~
Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.
~By Mary McLeod Bethune ~
The tribulation period is seven years, and when the signing of the covenant occurs, people who know the Bible and take it literally will know that, seven years later, Christ is going to come in His power and glory.
~By Tim LaHaye ~
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 ~
My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.
~By Karel Capek ~
The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.
~By Clay Aiken ~
Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.
~By William Dunbar ~
I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
~By Henry James ~
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
~By William Barclay ~
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
~By Walt Whitman ~
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
~By Isadora Duncan ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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 ~
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
~By Jonathan Edwards ~
Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
~By Samuel Hopkins ~
I'll always be chasing you... Glory.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
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 ~
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
~By Walt Whitman ~
War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.
~By Charles Mackay ~
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 ~
Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.
~By Algernon Charles Swinburne ~
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
~By Walt Whitman ~
There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
~By Mario Cuomo ~
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 ~
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
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 ~
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
~By Amelia Earhart ~
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 ~
Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation.
~By Sam Houston ~
Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
~By Aristotle ~
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