Sentence examples for self glory from inspiring English sources

Yet, Vernon says, "she never lost her resolute independence of thought, and sought power not for self glory but to succour the weak of the world".

He is not seeking self-glory.

Everything he did in power was not for self-glory.

Mr. McCain had thought "all glory was self-glory," but prison taught him "there are greater pursuits than self-seeking," Mr. Salter wrote for the senator.

As a young man, he said, he had thought that all glory was self-glory, and that he was so strong he could achieve whatever he wanted; but he learned in prison that he was dependent on others.

This was not just because a hospital offered sexual pickings and a captive audience for his ceaseless self-glorying monologues.

The carver of the capital or pinnacle was helping to make a house for God; his incentive is religion and not art or self-glory.

In the presence of such vagueness, anyone can simply construe any statement as blasphemous and then act to indulge in self-glory or acquisition of power.

What Mumtaz Qadri did was largely motivated by the desire of self-glory as he knew that such acts are held in extreme veneration by the society.

He wrote: "'In ... cricket tours it is essential to work solely on the lines of Fascism, i.e. the team must be good friends and out for one thing, and one thing only, namely the good of the side, and not for any self-glory".

In another email from last month, flagged by the Washington Post, Powell writes "Hillary has not been covering here [sic] self with glory.