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 ~
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 ~
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
~By Paul Tillich ~
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
~By James J. Corbett ~
The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.
~By Thomas F. Meagher ~
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.
~By Samuel Rutherford ~
I do not care for the money, just for the glory.
~By Anna Held ~
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 ~
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
Consciousness is the glory of creation.
~By James Broughton ~
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 ~
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
~By Aristotle ~
Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
~By Samuel Hopkins ~
Every knee will bend before me, and every tongue shall give glory to God.
~By Jesus Christ ~
A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
~By Pericles ~
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
~By Lord Byron ~
Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation.
~By Sam Houston ~
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
~By Jonathan Edwards ~
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
~By William Blake ~
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 ~
And say my glory was I had such friends.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
~By Walt Whitman ~
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 ~
I'll always be chasing you... Glory.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
~By Martha Graham ~
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
~By Salvador Dali ~
In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.
~By William Gurnall ~
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.
~By John Calvin ~
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
~By Francis of Assisi ~
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
~By Betty Smith ~
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 ~
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
~By Plutarch ~
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
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 ~
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
~By Adam Clarke ~
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 ~
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 ~
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
~By Andrew Young ~
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
~By Jean Racine ~
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 ~
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
~By Moliere ~
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 whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.
~By Girolamo Savonarola ~
'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.
~By Timothy Dalton ~
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.
~By John Quincy Adams ~
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 ~
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
~By Epicurus ~
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.
~By Louise Berliawsky Nevelson ~
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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 ~
To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
~By Walt Whitman ~
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 ~
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 ~
The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
~By Kenneth Branagh ~
There's no glory like those who save their country.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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 greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.
~By Clay Aiken ~
The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
~By Sallust ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.
~By David Sarnoff ~
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 ~
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
~By Thomas Gray ~
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
~By Thomas Moore ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.
~By Franklin Knight Lane ~
To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
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 ~
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
~By James Joyce ~
The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.
~By Nick Mancuso ~
A Victory without danger is a triumph without 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 ~
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
~By Jane Porter ~
How quickly passes away the glory of this world.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
~By Kurt Vonnegut ~
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 ~
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