quotations about glory
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
JAMES THOMSON
Sophonisba
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
CICERO
Tusculanarum Disputationum
O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
THOMAS À KEMPIS
Imitation of Christ
The fear of Jehovah is a training in wisdom, and before glory there is humility.
SOLOMON
Proverbs 15:33
To be used as an instrument of God's glory should be our highest joy.
OLIVER CROMWELL
attributed, Day's Collacon
Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise,
A flood of glory bursts from all the skies.
HOMER
Iliad
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
This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The Biglow Papers
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
Glory is a torch to kindle the noble mind.
SILIUS ITALICUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Prefer glory that will last forever, rather than that which lasts but a day.
POMPEY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Glory is so enchanting, that we love whatever we associate with it, even though it be death.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
Like madness is the glory of this life
As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Life of Timon of Athens
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 the casual gift of thoughtless crowds.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
attributed, Day's Collacon
When a man measures out glory for himself he always heaps the half bushel.
H. W. SHAW
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain.
PHAEDRUS
Fables
For I consider that the sufferings of the present time do not amount to anything in comparison with the glory that is going to be revealed in us.
PAUL
Romans 8:18