35 Inspirational Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes On Success

Alfred Tennyson was a British poet. He was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria’s reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor’s Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, “Timbuktu.” He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems Chiefly Lyrical in 1830. “Claribel” and “Mariana”, which remain some of Tennyson’s most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although decried by some critics as overly sentimental, his verse soon proved popular. May these Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.

1. “A sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

2. “The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”  Alfred Lord Tennyson

3. “Love is the only gold.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

4. “I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

5. “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.'” Alfred Lord Tennyson

6. “The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

7. “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

8.He makes no friends who never made a foe.”” Alfred Lord Tennyson

9. “A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

10. “I am a part of all that I have met.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

11. “Better not be at all than not be noble.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

12. “Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

13. “There’s no glory like those who save their country.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

14. “Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

15. “And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro’ nature, moulding men.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

16. “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

17. “Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

18. “I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

19. “Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

20. “Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?” Alfred Lord Tennyson

21. “We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother’s shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

22. “Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

23. “Who is wise in love, love most, say least.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

24. “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

25. “Authority forgets a dying king.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

26. “What rights are those that dare not resist for them?” Alfred Lord Tennyson

27. “All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

28. “A day may sink or save a realm.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

29. “My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

30. “A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

31. “By blood a king, in heart a clown.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

32. “No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

33. “Ring out the false, ring in the true.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

34. “Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

35. “Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

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