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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats

Friends, Begins, Ends

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Time, Greatest, Fall

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

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Together, Dream, Lord

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time, Greatest, Fail

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth

Strength, Nothing, Find

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
Bruce Lee

Fool, Off, Idea

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
Mahatma Gandhi

Goal, Lies, Reach

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
Thomas Jefferson

Conquest, Armies, Raise

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

Time, Greatest, Living

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

Alone, Pain, Loneliness

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle

Life, Happiness, Power

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
George Bernard Shaw

Love, Beauty, Truth

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
Vince Lombardi

Real, Coming, Essence

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
Vince Lombardi

Another, Loved, Individual

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere

Greater, Overcoming, Obstacle

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas Merton

Music, Nature, God

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Marianne Williamson

God, Nothing, Small

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Aurelius

Education, Often, Natural

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
Niccolo Machiavelli

God, Free, Away

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
Agnes de Mille

Power, Beautiful, Yourself

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher

Strength, Strong, Greatest

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
Sai Baba

Nature, God, Night

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
James Joyce

Age, Passion, Full

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.
John Quincy Adams

Government, Revolution, American

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Thucydides

Before, Vision, Meet

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
James A. Baldwin

Father, Son, Whole

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats

History, Alone, Judge

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Forever, Fleeting, Obscurity

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