Quotes About Glory

The big stadiums, sold-out crowds and games with massive things riding on them; as players these are games you want to be playing in. It's a chance to write your name in the history books.

As a child, I used to watch award functions, and would dream of going up to the stage and getting an award.

Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.