Glory (Latin:glōria · glory,fame, renown,praise,ambition,boasting; cognate with Greek: κλέος ·kleos,rumor, report) is a word indicating "renown", andgreatrepute. The optical phenomenon known as aGlory is produced bylight reflected toward its source by acloud or mist and producing anappearance of the spectrum of arainbow around the observer. In Judeo-Christian religious tradition, the word represents the manifestation ofGod's presence, and in Christian art this is depicted as a halo surrounding the whole body of a person.Glorification designates in thecanonization of asaint in theEastern Orthodox Church, and in generalChristian theology indicates thenature ofbelievers afterdeath andjudgement, in the final step in the application ofredemption.

For the 1989 film about the American Civil War, seeGlory (film)

• Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.
  • Glory followsvirtue as if it were itsshadow.
    • Cicero,Tusculanarum Disputationum, I.45.109.

• True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting.
  • Cicero, as quoted inGreat Catches; or, Grand Matches (1861), by Eleanor Frances Blakiston, p. 82.

• If thine is the glory then mine must be the shame
  • Leonard Cohen,You Want It Darker (2016)

• And I will shake all the nations, and the precious things of all the nations will come in; and I will fill this house with glory,’ saysJehovah of armies.
  • Haggai 2:7,New World Translation

• Thesilver is mine, and thegold is mine, declares Jehovah of armies.
  • Haggai 2:8

• The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
  • Haggai 2:9 King James Version.

• Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience—the knowledge that our might deeds will come to the ears of our contemporaries or "of those that are to be." We are ready to sacrifice our true, transitory self for the imaginary eternal self we are building up, by our heroic deeds,in the opinion and imagination of others.
  • Eric Hoffer,The True Believer (1951) Ch.13 Factors Promoting Self-sacrifice, §45

• Nothate, but glory, made these chiefs contend;
  And eachbravefoe was in hissoul afriend.
  • Homer, inThe Iliad as translated byAlexander Pope, Book VII, line 364.

• As when themoon, refulgent lamp ofnight,
  O'erheaven's clear azure spreads her sacredlight,
  When not a breath disturbs the deep serene,
  And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene;
  Around her throne the vivid planets roll,
  And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole,
  O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed,
  And tip with silver every mountain's head;
  Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise,
  A flood of glory bursts from all the skies.
  • Homer, inThe Iliad as translated byAlexander Pope, Book VIII, line 687.

• Arise, O woman, shed light, for your light has come. The glory ofJehovah shines on you. For look! darkness will cover the earth and thick gloom the nations; But on you Jehovah will shine, and on you his glory will be seen. Nations will go to your light and kings to your shining splendor.
  • Isaiah,60: 1-3,NWT

• Better a short life, full of deeds and glory, than a long life without substance.
  • Ernst Jünger,On Pain (1934), p. 30

• This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
  • James Russell Lowell,The Biglow Papers (1848), First Series. No, II.

• True glory is aflame lighted at theskies.
  • Horace Mann, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert,Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 256.

• Cineri gloria sera est.
  • Glory paid to our ashes comes too late
    • Martial,Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), I. 26. 8.

• For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
  • Paul of Tarsus,Romans 8:18-21,KJV

• Lessglory is moreliberty. When the drum issilent,reason sometimes speaks.
  • Albert Pike, inMorals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. I : Apprentice, The Twelve-Inch Rule and Common Gavel, p. 1.

• True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make theworldhappier and better for our living in it.
  • Pliny the Elder, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert,Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 256.

• Alone in the darkness, standing with his back to the wall, facing overwhelming numbers. A glorious way to die, but Kaladin didn’t want glory. He’d given up on that foolish dream as a child.
  • Brandon Sanderson,Rhythm of War (2020),ISBN 978-0-7653-2638-6, p. 582 (Chapter 44)

• Glory is like acircle in thewater,
  Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
  Till, by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
  • William Shakespeare,Henry VI, Part I (c. 1588-90), Act I, scene 2, line 133.

• When the moon shone, we did not see thecandle;
  So doth the greater glory dim the less.
  • William Shakespeare,The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act V, scene 1, line 92.

• Like madness is the glory of this life.
  • William Shakespeare,Timon of Athens (date uncertain, published 1623), Act I, scene 2, line 139.

• Who would be so mock'd with glory?
  • William Shakespeare,Timon of Athens (date uncertain, published 1623), Act IV, scene 2, line 33.

• On seeing hisshadow fall on such ancient rocks, he had to question himself in a different context and ask the same old question as before, "Who am I?", and the answernow camemore emphatically than ever before, "No-one."
  But a no-one with a crown oflight about his head. He would remember a verse fromPindar: "Man is adream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him fromGod, aglory comes to him and hislife is sweet."
  • R. S. Thomas,Neb [No-one] (1985).

• Real glory
  Springs from the silent conquest of ourselves; and without that the conqueror is nought but the first slave.
  • James Thomson, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert,Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 256.

• We rise in glory, as we sink in pride:
  Where boastingends, there dignity begins.
  • Edward Young,Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night VIII, line 508.

• I am doing my best to glorify thescamp or vagabond. Ihope I shall succeed. For things are not sosimple as they sometimes seem. In this present age of threats todemocracy and individualliberty, probably only the scamp and thespirit of the scamp alone will save us from being lost in serially numbered units in the masses of disciplined, obedient, regimented and uniformed coolies.The scamp will be the last and most formidableenemy ofdictatorships. He will be the champion ofhumandignity andindividualfreedom, and will be the last to be conquered. All moderncivilization depends entirely upon him.
  • Lin Yutang, inThe Importance of Living (1937), Ch. I : The Awakening

Quotes reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 313-14.

• So may glory from defect arise.
  • Robert Browning,Deaf and Dumb.

• The glorydies not, and thegrief ispast.
  • Egerton Brydges,On the Death of Sir Walter Scott.

• Who track the steps of Glory to the grave.
  • Lord Byron,Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan.

• Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.
  • Holy Father, so passes away the glory of theworld.
  • SeeCornelius a Lapide,Commentaria, 2nd. Epist. ad Cor, Chapter XII. 7. The sentence is used in the Service of the Pope's enthronement after the burning of flax. Rite used in the triumphal processions of the Roman republic. According to Zonaræ—Annals. (1553).

• Glory built
  Onselfishprinciples isshame andguilt.
  • William Cowper,Table Talk, line 1.

• The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
  • Thomas Gray,Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Stanza 9.

• The first in glory, as the first in place.
  • Homer,The Odyssey, Book XI, line 441. Pope's translation.

• Fulgente trahit constrictos Gloria curru
  Non minus ignotos generosis.
  • Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
  • Horace,Satires, I. 6. 23.

• O quam cito transit gloria mundi.
  • O how quickly passes away the glory of theearth.
    • Thomas á Kempis,Imitation of Christ, Book I, Chapter III. 6.

• Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit à la gloire.
  • No flowery road leads to glory.
    • Jean de La Fontaine,Fables, X. 14.

• La gloire n'est jamais où la vertu n'est pas.
  • Glory is never wherevirtue is not.
    • Le Franc,Didon.

• The glory of Him who
  Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when theworld He created.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,The Children of the Lord's Supper, line 177.

• Those glories come too late
  That on our ashes wait.
  • Richard Lovelace, inscription on title-page ofPosthumous Poems (1659).

• Go where glory waits thee;
  But whilefame elates thee,
  Oh! still remember me.
  • Thomas Moore,Go Where Glory Waits Thee.

• Immensum gloria calcar habet.
  • The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.
  • Ovid,Epistolæ Ex Ponto, IV. 2. 36.

• Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.
  • Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain.
    • Phaedrus,Fables, III. 17. 12.

• Who pants for glory, finds but short repose;
  A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
  • Alexander Pope,Second Book of Horace, Epistle I, line 300.

• Magnum iter adscendo; sed dat mihi gloria vires.
  • I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives mestrength.
    • Sextus Propertius,Elegies, IV. 10. 3.

• Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
  To all the sensualworld proclaim,
  One crowded hour of gloriouslife
  Isworth an age without aname.
  • Walter Scott,On Mortality (1816), Chapter XXXIV, introductory stanza. Recently discovered inThe Bee, Edinburgh (Oct. 12, 1791). Said to have been written by Major Mordaunt. Whole poem reproduced inLiterary Digest (Sept. 11, 1920), p. 38.

• Some glory in theirbirth, some in theirskill,
  Some in theirwealth, some in their bodies'force,
  Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill;
  Some in theirhawks andhounds, some in theirhorse;
  And everyhumor hath his adjunctpleasure,
  Wherein it finds ajoy above therest.
  • William Shakespeare,Sonnet XCI.

• Avoidshame, but do not seek glory,—nothing so expensive as glory.
  • Sydney Smith,Lady Holland's Memoir, Volume I, p. 86.

• Heu, quam difficilis gloriæ custodia est.
  • Alas! how difficult it is to retain glory!
    • Syrus,Maxims.

• Et ipse quidem, quamquam medio in spatio integræ ætatis ereptus, quantum ad gloriam, longissimum ævum peregit.
  • As he, though carried off in the prime oflife, had lived long enough for glory.
  • Tacitus,Agricola. XLIV.

• 'Twas glory once to be a Roman;
  She makes it glory,now, to be aman.
  • • Bayard Taylor,The National Ode.

• I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and inconsiderable city to glory andgreatness.
  • Themistocles, on being taunted with his want of social accomplishments. Plutarch'sLife.

• Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
  But look'd to near have neither heat norlight.
  • John Webster,The White Devil, Act V, scene 1.

• Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
  • William Wordsworth,To B. R. Haydon, line 14.

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