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

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
Barbara Tuchman

The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
Kenneth Branagh

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
Belva Lockwood

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
Alfred Austin

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
Jean Racine

The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.
Thomas F. Meagher

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epictetus

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
Pierre Corneille

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

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

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.
Clay Aiken

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

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.
Mahalia Jackson

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
James A. Baldwin

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
William Beveridge