Glory Quotes

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Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are what they value.… — Laozi
Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do… — William Morley Punshon
To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these… — Ernest Renan
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory — John Steinbeck
The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory. — Richard M. Weaver
The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals — Swami Vivekananda
Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story. — Edgar Guest
Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished: many civilizations have… — Unknown Author
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way… — Seneca the Younger
You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by… — Rick Warren
One of the ways we reflect God's love and bring him glory is to accept each other just as he accepts us. This means we… — Rick Warren
Counting our blessings can transform melancholy into cheerful mass; laughter and joy are expressions of praise and thanksgiving for life's glories. When looking at the… — John Templeton
No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the ignorant… — Richard Hakluyt
A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the… — John Steinbeck
As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any… — Ernest Hemingway
The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories. — Anthony Storr
The voice of God is heard from heaven, declaring the day and hour of Jesus' coming, and delivering the everlasting covenant to His people. Like… — Ellen G. White
Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born king. — Charles Wesley
Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them the… — Pliny the Elder
I'm going to die very soon. Before my 21st birthday. I won't live to be 21. I'm never going to be old. I don't ever… — Unknown Author

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