Inspirational Quotations by William Shakespeare
- Cowards die many times before their deaths;
the valiant never taste death but once.
- Our doubts are traitors
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
- There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
- We know what we are,
but know not what we may be.
- Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou are not so unkind As man's ingratitude.
- Doubt that the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt love.
- Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
- This above all:
to thine own self be true,
and it must follow,
as the night of the day,
thou canst not then be false to any man.
- My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
my love as deep. The more I give to thee,
the more I have, for both are infinite.
- A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk,
will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
- There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
- Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
- Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
- Thus we play the fool with the time and the
spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
- This above all: to thine own self be true,
and it must follow, as the night of the day,
thou cans't not then be false to any man.
- Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.
- Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
- Thieves for their robbery have authority
When judges steal themselves.
- Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets,
But gold that's put to use more gold begets.
- The jury, passing on the prisoner's life,
May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
Guiltier than him they try.
- If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work; but when they seldom come, wished for come.
- The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
- The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
- Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
- Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.
- How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
- This, too, shall pass.
- Things done well and with care, exempt themselves from fear.