Sayings about Glory
Glory is the shadow of virtue. ~ Latin Proverbs
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the earth shows his handiwork. ~ Bible
Merit and glory never adorn a nightcap. ~ Chinese Proverb
When glory comes, memory departs. ~ French Proverbs
Unless what we do is useful, glory is vain. ~ Latin Proverb
The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is their gray head. ~ Bible
The glory of ancestors should not prevent a man winning glory for himself. ~ Serbian Proverbs
There’s no glory without sacrifice. ~ Filipino Proverbs
Popularity is the small change of glory. ~ French Proverb
Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your mother-in-law. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Quotations about Glory
Glory is high renown, praise and honor obtained by notable achievements, and based in extensive common consent. ~ An ecrept from Wikipedia
Love exalts as much as glory does. ~ Juliette Drouet
All glory comes from daring to begin. ~ Eugene F. Ware
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. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
There’s no glory like those who save their country. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. ~ Plutarch
A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory. ~ Pierre Corneille
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home. ~ Boethius
Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. ~ Billy Boy Franklin
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents. ~ Belva Lockwood
The deed is everything, the glory is naught. ~ Goethe
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. ~ Charles De Gaulle
The greatest Glory of a free-born People is to transmit that Freedom to their Children. ~ William Havard
True glory lies in noble deeds. ~ Author Unknown
Glory is the child of peril. ~ Tobias G. Smollett
The fire of glory is the torch of the mind. ~ Author Unknown
We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. ~ Paul Tillich
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. ~ Marcus Valerius Martial
The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealously. ~ Lope de Vega
I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all. ~ Carl Sandburg
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. ~ Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
The paths of glory lead but to the grave. ~ Thomas Gray
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. ~ Samuel Johnson
All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears. ~ Joaquin Miller
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. ~ Joseph P. Thompson
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory; but boys, it is all hell. ~ William T. Sherman
There is a glory in a great mistake. ~ Nathalia Crane
Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man. ~ Bertrand Russell
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. ~ Eric Hoffer
To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory. ~ Pierre Corneille
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. ~ Julius Caesar
The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them. ~ Baron Grimm
You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town. ~ Henry O. Porter
And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave. ~ Joseph Drake
Work is not man’s punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure. ~ George Sand
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. ~ William Butler Yeats
Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter. ~ Thomas Hobbes
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. ~ William Cowper
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
The medals don’t mean anything and the glory doesn’t last. It’s all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing. ~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee
And say my glory was I had such friends. ~ William Butler Yeats
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. ~ James Baldwin
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. ~ Jonathan Edwards
I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. ~ William Shakespeare
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. ~ Betty Smith
Military glory — the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard. ~ James J. Corbett
I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love. ~ Thomas Traherne
Glory comes too late, after one has been reduced to ashes. ~ Marcus Valerius Martial
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory. ~ John Donne
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. ~ Socrates
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it. ~ Pliny the Elder
Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught. ~ William Shakespeare
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. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave? ~ Lord Byron
Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule — these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature. ~ Bhagavad Gita
We rise in glory as we sink in pride. ~ Andrew Young
The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. ~ Ovid
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. ~ King Hussein
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Confucius
Avoid shame but do not seek glory — nothing so expensive as glory. ~ Sydney Smith
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. ~ Epicurus