Quotes About Glory

The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

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!

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Man's glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in 'his goodness,' for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.

Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.

It is the success which makes great men.

Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

The Glory of Israel will not lie or repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.

The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.

God is looking for men in whose hands His glory is safe.

Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory.

Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.