Glorious Quotes

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Failure, Live, Win

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard

Success, Failure, May

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
Marcus Garvey

Black, Rather, Greatness

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine

Triumph, Conflict, Harder

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Else, Everyone, Show

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Human, Sun

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.
Lucinda Franks

Love, Men, Christmas

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Gustave Flaubert

Life, Success, Future

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin Luther

Nature, True, Made

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.
Donald Cargill

The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
Sai Baba

Life, Live, Learn

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir

Sun, Mountains, Greeting

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radner

Life, Die, Creativity

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. Mencken

Great, Heart, Last

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir

Storm, Few, Silent

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.
Johnny Rotten

Nothing, Anyone, Dying

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Harry S. Truman

Faith, Great, Future

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
Swami Sivananda

Great, Struggle, Triumph

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Wisdom, Action

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Time, Islam, Past

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
Walter Scott

Life, Age, Worth

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
Marianne Williamson

Power, Lost, State

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Through, Become, Innocent

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
Sophocles

Good, Deeds, Task

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
Henry Louis Gates

Great, War, Mind

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, Wine, Makes

It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.
Russell Brand

Beautiful, Yourself, Self

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
E. M. Forster

Sunshine, Through, Adventure

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
Denis Diderot

Art, Science, Live

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.
Richard Lewis

Life, Love, Two

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