Glory Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings



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.
Anonymous

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

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught.
William Shakespeare

All glory comes from daring to begin.
Anonymous

The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.
Anonymous

Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in rerun.
John McCain

Glory is the shadow of virtue.
Latin Proverb

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
James Arthur Baldwin

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.
Mohandas Gandhi

Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God.
Anonymous

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
Jean de La Fontaine

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.
Benjamin Franklin

The glory of great men should be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
François de la Rochefoucauld

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.
David Sarnoff

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Julius Caesar

Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith, Confucius

True glory lies in noble deeds.
Anonymous

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.
Anonymous

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
William Cowper

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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