To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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.
The glory of American television is Dennis Franz.
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Glory be and praise to God. I didn't do any of this. God did. I don't have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.
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.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
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.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
'Glory' pays tribute to honorable men who faced unimaginable discrimination even as they fought to preserve basic human rights.
