Quotes About Glory

The world is beautiful and glorious. Humanity can be mean, and turn away from what's good.

Nevertheless, an Olympic pool is an Olympic pool, touched by immortal glory.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

A man can die. He is glorious when he calmly accepts death; but when he fights like a tiger, when he stands at bay his back to the wall, a broken weapon in his hand, bloody, defiant, game to the end, then he is sublime. Then he wrings respect from the souls of even his bitterest foes. Then he is avenged even in his death.

Armies of marching men told of that blight of nations old or young—war. These, and birds unnamable, and beasts unclassable, with dots and marks and hieroglyphics, recorded the history of a bygone people. Symbols they were of an era that had gone into the dim past, leaving only these marks, {Symbols recording the history of a bygone people.} forever unintelligible; yet while they stood, century after century, ineffaceable, reminders of the glory, the mystery, the sadness of life.

It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such. However, I would not, by word or deed, attempt to deprive another of the consolation it affords. It is simply not for me. Somebody else may have my rapturous glance at the archangels. The springing of the yellow line of morning out of the misty deep of dawn is glory enough for me.

I've had a lot of accolades throughout my career, but that hasn't really changed me. I know that comes with the winning.

I think winning becomes addictive.

Public adulation is the ultimate high.

Fame has never been high on my agenda.

I didn't aim to be a hero at all. So when I got a hero's role, imagine my joy.

Being an All-Star is everything.

What good is it if you are a 15-, 16-time All-Star and you never won nothing? A ring supersedes all of that.

Always, when you win the fight, it's an amazing feeling.

Winning the middleweight title was an amazing feeling.

Pride is an amazing thing.

The Ashes have been hard, but you take the accolades when they come along.

At a personal level, doing well in the Ashes and winning it was a high.

Sufra, sufra, amigo mío, será famoso, sus penas son el precio de la inmortalidad. Mucho me gustaría a mí tener que soportar las penalidades de una lucha. Dios le guarde de una vida sin conflicto ni luchas, en la que las alas del águila no encuentran espacio bastante. ¡Envidio sus sufrimientos, pues al menos usted está vivo! ¡Desplegará sus fuerzas, esperará una victoria! Su lucha será gloriosa.

For all human sentiments there is a time of early blossoming, a day of generous enthusiasm that gradually fades until nothing is left of happiness but a memory, and glory is known for a delusion.

Existe en todos los sentimientos humanos una flor primitiva, engendrada por un noble entusiasmo, que va marchitándose poco a poco hasta que la felicidad no es ya sino un recuerdo, y la gloria una mentira.

The glory of a surgeon is like that of an actor: they live only so long as they are alive, and their talent leaves no trace when they are gone. Actors and surgeons, like great singers too, like the executants who by their performance increase the power of music tenfold, are all the heroes of a moment.

It is not merely that we "glory in the cross" (Gal 6:14), but we draw strength from it.

Politicians were beginning to realize that if one cannot have the glory of successful war on foreign soil, one can do almost as well by creating a minor replica at home