#glory

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#glory #greater

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

#common man #glory #government #happiness #man

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#ego #glory #men

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#every #every time #fail #failing #glory

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#praise #the-purpose-of-life #life

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. ↗

— George Bancroft

#consent #crown #envy #excite #glory

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#cleansed #completely #dies #fit #glory

There is no road of flowers leading to glory. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#glory #leading #road

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

#being #being alone #created #express #glory

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#everything #felt #glory #gold #hands