John Dryden Biography | Inspiration Quotations | Motivation Quotes

John Dryden Motivational Quotations:

• “He who would search for pearls must dive below.”

•  “Beware the fury of a patient man.”

•  “The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.”

•  “Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.”

•  “Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”

•  “Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”

•  “We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”

•  “Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.”

•  “But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.”

•  “If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.”

•  “For they conquer who believe they can.”

•  “Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be”

•  “Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.”

•  “Words are but pictures of our thoughts.”

•  “Love is not in our choice but in our fate.”

•  “When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.”

•  “Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.”

•  “War is the trade of Kings.”

  

   

• “To die is landing on some distant shore.”

•  “Love is love's reward.”

•  “Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.”

•  “And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.”

•  “Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.”

• “Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.”

•  “The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.”

•  “All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”

•  “The first is the law, the last prerogative.”

•  “Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.”

•  “Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”

•  “You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.”

•  “Roused by the lash of his  own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.”

•  “God never made His work for man to mend.”

•  “All objects lose by too familiar a view.”

•  “Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.”

•  “Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.”

•  “And plenty makes us poor.”

•  “Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.”

•  “What passions cannot music raise or quell?”

•  “Honor is but an empty bubble.”

•  “It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.”

•  “A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.”

  

   

• “They that possess the prince possess the laws.”

•  “Successful crimes alone are justified.”

•  “Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.”

•  “Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.”

•  “Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!”

•  “He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”

•  “By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.”

•  “Genius must be born, and never can be taught.”

•  “There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.”

•  “Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.”

•  “By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.”

•  “Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.”

•  “For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.”

•  “But love's a malady without a cure.”

•  “All heiresses are beautiful.”

•  “Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.”

•  “Repentance is but want of power to sin.”

• “Even victors are by victories undone.”