Glory Quotes
2290 quotes by 1395 authors
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
— Aristotle
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own…
— Francis of Assisi
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on…
— Alfred Austin
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Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a…
— Sai Baba
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.
— Michele Bachmann
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Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.
— Joseph Barbera
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
— Philip James Bailey
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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
— James A. Baldwin
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
— James A. Baldwin
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The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory…
— John Adams
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
— John Quincy Adams
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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
— Charles Baudelaire
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To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
— Joseph Addison
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
— William Blake
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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