472 Quotes About Glory

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

Glory is revealed most clearly in desperation, dependance, and discomfort.

This need for recognition and glory must have its roots in human loneliness.

There are poets who glory in their recounts of battle, of all those struggles so deftly ritualized. And they tend lovingly their garden of words, heaping high the harvest of glory, duty, courage and honour. But each of those luscious, stirring words is plucked from the same vine, and alas, it is a poisonous one. Name it necessity, and look well upon its spun strands, its fibrous belligerence.

there may be greater glory in obedience where the desire to obey is less

The congressmen in the room just wanted to see them, to use their position to arrange a personal audience, to gaze upon them with their own eyes across the committee table, no more than four feet away, to shake hands with them, occupy the same space on this earth with them for and hour or so, fawn over them, pay homage to them, bathe in their magical aura, feel the radiation of their righteous stuff, salute them, wish upon them the smile of God...

Though she seemed to have failed at most everything up until now, her next step only needed to be what would give God the most glory. Not just because she felt like it. Not only when she was promised success. But because He was worthy of it. Because it was right.

Men feared even the shade of Alexander, lest they encounter him again beneath the earth, for surely in that world, too, none would surpass him.

An actor has been guaranteed by one book. A writer has written, only two books. A poet thinks about the whole human history, beyond one perception.