Glory Quotes

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder.

I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.

To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.

While I give you these assurances, and pledge myself in the most unequivocal manner, to exert whatever ability I am possessed of, in your favor-let me entreat you, Gentlemen, on your part, not to take any measures, which, viewed in the calm light of reason, will lessen the dignity, & sully the glory you have hitherto maintained-let me request you to rely on the plighted faith of your Country, and place a full confidence in the purity of the intentions of Congress.

The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

Ayodhya is the town of Lord Rama himself. Lord Rama himself has described the glory of Ayodhya "My birthplace Ayodhya is the city of supernatural beauty."

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the words with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to those whose nest whence he sprang.

The love of glory is like the bridge that Satan built across Chaos to pass from Hell to Paradise: glory links the past with the future across a bottomless abyss. Nothing to my son, except my name!

My true glory is not to have won 40 battles; Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories. But what nothing will erase, what will live forever, is my Civil Code.

Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.

To have lived without glory, without leaving a trace of existence, is not to have lived at all.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

Death is nothing; but to live defeated and without glory is to die every day.

It is the self-reliant pioneer in every enterprise who beats the path along which American civilization has marched. Such individual effort is the glory of America.

There are victories whose glory lies only in the fact that they are known to those who win them.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.