Quote by John Dryden
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or k

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. – John Dryden

Other quotes by John Dryden

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. – John Dryden

Category:
Fear
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Career, Vocation
category

If I had my career over again? Maybe Id say to myself, speed it up a little. – Jimmy Stewart

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all. – Lyndon B. Johnson

The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years. – C. Wright Mills

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. – Elvis Costello

Random Quotes

A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else. – Pierre Corneille

Category:
power

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. – Eric Hoffer

Category:
Hope

Everything is generated through your own will power. – Ray Bradbury

Category:
power

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor. – Beverley Baxter

Category:
Government