Glory Quotes

What millions died – that Caesar might be great!

Boasting of glory does not make glory.

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

To get rich is glorious.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.

Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life! A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. On and on and on and on!

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Joseph Stalin was a supreme egotist and sadist, capable of sacrificing everything and anyone for the sake of his own power and glory.

I've had two pedicures in my life, and they were glorious.

Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.

Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for!

Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily.

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.

It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.

Praying in Jesus' name makes the distinction that all glory and honor belong to Christ, who is one with God the Father.

We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit!

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.