quotations about glory
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
I have ventur'd,
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
This many summers in a sea of glory,
But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride
At length broke under me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry VIII
O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
THOMAS À KEMPIS
Imitation of Christ
This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The Biglow Papers
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
Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till, by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry VI, Part I
To be used as an instrument of God's glory should be our highest joy.
OLIVER CROMWELL
attributed, Day's Collacon
Glory is a torch to kindle the noble mind.
SILIUS ITALICUS
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
Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise,
A flood of glory bursts from all the skies.
HOMER
Iliad
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
Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain.
PHAEDRUS
Fables
Glory is so enchanting, that we love whatever we associate with it, even though it be death.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
CICERO
Tusculanarum Disputationum
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
Glory is the casual gift of thoughtless crowds.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
attributed, Day's Collacon
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 safe when it is deserved; it is not so with popularity; one lasts like a mosaic, the other is effaced like the crayon drawing.
STANISLAS DE BOUFFLERS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?
RICK RIORDAN
The Lightning Thief
Prefer glory that will last forever, rather than that which lasts but a day.
POMPEY
attributed, Day's Collacon