Quotes About Glory

The French are obsessed with history, partly out of a genuine affinity for the past, partly from a desire to cling to lost glory.

one grows to the belief that, while woman's glory is in her hair, man's glory is to defeat some one. And if he can 'defeat with great slaughter' his monument is twice as high as if he had only visited on his brother man a plain undoing.

The genie within is your birthright and manifesting the glory of the Creator by carrying out your purpose is the highest and best gift you can give the Giver.

There are two kinds of snobbishness: One is that of the man who has had a good many opportunities and looks down on those who lack them. The other is rarely understood, that of the self-made man who glories in his success in overcoming difficulties and admires greatly people who have achieved the things he considers of importance.

I didn't know the map of prestige.

Man is a creature inescapably, and often unhappily, divided; and the divisions within him recurrently impel the use of his imagination to make new syntheses. The creative consequences of his imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

We cannot in any better manner glorify the Lord and Creator of the universe than that in all things, how small soever they appear to our naked eyes, but which have yet received the gift of life and power of increase, we contemplate the display of his omnificence and perfections with the utmost admiration.

Nunca perseguí la gloria ni dejar en la memoria de los hombres mi canción; yo amo los mundos sutiles, ingrávidos y gentiles como pompas de jabón. Me gusta verlos pintarse de sol y grana, volar bajo el cielo azul, temblar súbitamente y quebrarse.

That which is a common concern is very generally neglected. The energies of man are excited by that which depends on himself alone, and of which he only is to reap the whole profit or glory.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."[7]

All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.

My idea is to win all the iconic motor sport races in the world.

In my younger days, I loved to run. Although it may be hard for you to believe it, I did. And I did win a few races.

I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

I just want to say that I'm, like, living for myself, because I was onstage at Radio City Music Hall with Christina Aguilera - and my name was on the screen. It was a big moment!

Germany is a nation which must always win.

I dream of winning the Champions League title with Manchester City and a title with Germany.

Awards shows mainly publicize the people giving the awards.

I don't believe in past lifetimes, but if there was one, I had to be a gladiator.

I love 'Gladiator' and '300.'

Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.

Whatever happens at the end of the day, as long as I glorify His name, that's what it's all about.