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A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell. C S Lewis
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glory a bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Declaration of Rights
Your glory walks hand in hand with your doom. Troy 2004 starring Brad Pitt & Eric Bana & Orlando Bloom & Rose Byrne & Peter O’Toole & Diane Kruger & Brian Cox & Sean Bean & Julie Christie & Saffron Burrows et al, director Wolfgang Petersen
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. Marcus Tullius Cicero
There must be a beginning to any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. Francis Drake, letter to Francis Walsingham 17th May 1587
And glory, like the phoenix midst her fires,
Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires. Lord Byron
Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till, by broad spreading, it disperses to naught. William Shakespeare, The First Part of Henry the Sixth I iii 112-114
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Glory is fleeting but obscurity is for ever. Napoleon Bonaparte
What Price Glory? Maxwell Anderson & Lawrence Stallings, title of play
Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valour. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return. John McCain
There is no road of flowers leading to glory. Jean de la Fontaine
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. Julius Caesar
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. Jonathan Edwards
Oh how quickly the glory of the world passes away! Thomas a Kempis
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But looked to near, have neither heat nor light. John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi 1623
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men. Luke 2:14
But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! I Corinthians 9:15&16
One star differeth from another star in glory. I Corinthians 15:41
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. James Joyce
This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death! John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it. Pliny the Elder
The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways. Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
Glory must be earned. Through sacrifice. And pain. Star Trek: Discovery V: Choose Your Pain, Klinton torturer of Lorca
So Edmund spurned his friends and began his quest for glory. The Black Adder: The Black Seal, caption, BBC 1983