Quotes About Glory

I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people.

In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

Even such is man, whose glory lendsHis life a blaze or two, and ends.

This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.

A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man." I love that line.

Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?

And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.

In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me.

Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.

Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.

The money will go but the trophies will always be there.

I do not care for the money, just for the glory.