Quotes About Glory

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

By the aid of philosophy you will live not unpleasantly, for you will learn to extract pleasure from all places and things: wealth will make you happy, because it will enable you to benefit many; and poverty, as you will not then have many anxieties; and glory, for it will make you honoured; and obscurity, for you will then be safe from envy.

It is the fortune of all good men that their virtue rises in glory after their deaths, and that the envy which evil men conceive against them never outlives them long; some have the happiness even to see it die before them; but in Numa's case, also, the fortunes of the succeeding kings served as foils to set off the brightness of his reputation.

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it…eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

In politics, we must not escape a single master…but many masters…contentiousness, love of glory, the desire to be first and greatest, and the sickness that produces envy, jealousy, and dissension in abundance.

To the greater glory of God.

God's real desire, in addition to displaying His glory, is to claim your heart and the hearts of those you love.

I want my life to radiate what happens when God has a person's heart at His full control, when every event or circumstance is simply another avenue to know Him better and show forth His glory.

And say my glory was I had friends like such type of leaders.

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

All I wanted was this place of glory and things that can never be to be.

Together my wife and I are building the kingdom of God, exercising dominion, beating back the weeds of stinky dippers, tending the garden God has put us in. This is why my dear wife vacuums the floor, for it is part of the garden she has been called to dress and to keep. But she is doing this not as raw duty, but because she understands that she is exercising dominion over the dust, for the glory of Christ.

Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.

Dependency does not reduce value but rather grants dignity, a notion fundamentally counter to those for whom the freedom of birds is insulting. God's glory does not diminish ours, and our dignity is not a threat to God, for God's own glory, in part, is us. The glory of God is present to things as the graciousness of their being; things are never just themselves, they carry the weight of God along with them.

With him died a story That will not be retold: How, forsaking glory, Achilles grows old While Hector dusts his trophies Behind high walls- For in his unsung strophes Troy never falls

A man's wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offence' (Prov. 19:11).

If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.1 —HENRY T. BLACKABY

Don't fear His silence. Use it to examine your heart and motives. Listen expectantly for the silence to be broken by the glory of His manifested presence once again in your life.

It is my Bharatvarsha in all its glory, replete with wealth, knowledge, spiritual faith.

My heart was bursting with pride the night I fought Steve Robinson in Wales, and I made the champion look like the challenger.

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?

I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.

I'm not turning down the opportunity to walk out the ring with four belts.

For me, my biggest thing, my biggest mantra, is winning.