"Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?"
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

"In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be..."
— Wordsworth William

"May those who follow their fate be granted happiness; may those who defy it be granted glory
-Edel"
— Mizuo Shinonome (Princess Tutu)

"He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't."
— Craig Ferguson (American on Purpose)

""Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume."
"On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going to cover my funeral expenses, son?"
"Splendidly. Banners, dancing girls, and enough beer to float your coffin to Valhalla."
- Miles coaxing Ky Tung to agree to an almost suicidal mission"
— Lois McMaster Bujold (The Vor Game)

"(about William Blake)

As for Blake's happiness--a man who knew him said: "If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to me."

And yet this creative power in Blake did not come from ambition. ...He burned most of his own work. Because he said, "I should be sorry if I had any earthly fame, for whatever natural glory a man has is so much detracted from his spiritual glory. I wish to do nothing for profit. I wish to live for art. I want nothing whatever. I am quite happy."

...He did not mind death in the least. He said that to him it was just like going into another room. On the day of his death he composed songs to his Maker and sang them for his wife to hear. Just before he died his countenance became fair, his eyes brightened and he burst into singing of the things he saw in heaven. "
— Brenda Ueland (If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit)

"His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too."
— Ken Follett (The Pillars of the Earth)

"To bend, sometimes it's more important to care about somebody than to obey the letter of a rule."
— Jean Westin

"God send's you what you need you'll see, it come out in the wash."
— jean westin

"The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments"
— Charles-Auguste de Beriot

"Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for!"
— Steven Pressfield (The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great)

"Let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the LORD.

-- Jeremiah 9:24"
— Various (Holy Bible)

"Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]"
— Charles de Gaulle