"Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt."
- William Shakespeare
Overcoming Obstacles
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"
- William Shakespeare
Awareness
"I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?"
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"But love is blind, and lovers cannot see."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts."
- William Shakespeare
Philosophy
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
- Shakespeare
Personal Growth
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them"
- William Shakespeare
Ambition
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
- William Shakespeare
Philosophy
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"If music be the food of love, play on."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
- William Shakespeare
Ambition
"To thine own self be true"
- William Shakespeare
Integrity
"To be, or not to be: that is the question."
- William Shakespeare
Philosophy
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
- William Shakespeare
Motivation
"The fault…is not in our stars, but in ourselves."
- William Shakespeare
Responsibility
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
- William Shakespeare
Ambition
"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."
- William Shakespeare
Ambition
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts."
- William Shakespeare
Philosophy
"The fault...is not in our stars, but in ourselves."
- William Shakespeare
Responsibility
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
- William Shakespeare
Philosophy
"If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone."
- William Shakespeare
Integrity
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
- William Shakespeare
Ambition
"I would not wish any companion in the world but you."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"I am one who loved not wisely but too well."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"A young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"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."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest."
- Much Ado About Nothing
Love
"Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Love is too young to know what conscience is."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"In black ink my love may still shine bright."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand that I might touch that cheek!"
- William Shakespeare
Love
"For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?"
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Speak low, if you speak love."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain."
- Venus and Adonis
Love
"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this and this gives life to thee."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"For you, in my respect, are all the world."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Love is merely a madness."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Boldness be my friend."
- William Shakespeare
Boldness
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
- William Shakespeare
Belief
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
- William Shakespeare
Philosophy
"This above all - to thine own self be true"
- William Shakespeare
Belief in Self
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them"
- William Shakespeare
Ambition
"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"...we know what we are, but know not what we may be."
- William Shakespeare
Self-awareness
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."
- Billy the Kid
Courage
"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"No legacy is so rich as honesty."
- William Shakespeare
Honesty
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
- William Shakespeare
Self-awareness
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."
- William Shakespeare
Motivation
"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"This above all; to thine own self be true."
- William Shakespeare
Belief in Self
"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."
- William Shakespeare
Aspirations
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
- William Shakespeare
Leadership
"What's done can't be undone."
- William Shakespeare
Responsibility
"Such as we are made of, such we be."
- William Shakespeare
Belief in Self
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."
- William Shakespeare
Taking Risks
"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
- William Shakespeare
Contribution
"Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge."
- William Shakespeare
Forgiveness
"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
- William Shakespeare
Insight
"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
- William Shakespeare
Wisdom
"Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge."
- William Shakespeare
Compassion
"...it is not enough to speak, but to speak true."
- William Shakespeare
Integrity
"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after."
- William Shakespeare
Compassion
"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
- William Shakespeare
Awareness
"Expectation is the root of all heartache."
- William Shakespeare
Awareness
"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
- William Shakespeare
Empathy
"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up o-er wrought heart and bids it break."
- William Shakespeare
Healing
"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it."
- William Shakespeare
Taking Risks
"One may smile, and smile, be a villain."
- William Shakespeare
Awareness
"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."
- William Shakespeare
Self-awareness
"Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me."
- William Shakespeare
Belief in Self
"Et tu, Brute?"
- Julius Caesar
Bravery
"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on."
- William Shakespeare
Awareness
"All things are ready, if our mind be so."
- William Shakespeare
Motivation
"Many a true word hath been spoken in jest."
- William Shakespeare
Wisdom
"For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds."
- William Shakespeare
Awareness
"The Devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape."
- William Shakespeare
Awareness
"April hath put a spirit of youth in everything."
- William Shakespeare
Joy
"Summer's lease hath all too short a date."
- William Shakespeare
Reflection
"Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners."
- William Shakespeare
Self-improvement
"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?"
- William Shakespeare
Philosophy
"Men should be what they seem."
- William Shakespeare
Integrity
"Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valour As thou are in desire?"
- William Shakespeare
Bravery
"Better three hours too soon than a minute late."
- William Shakespeare
Time Management
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
- William Shakespeare
Connection to Earth
"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."
- William Shakespeare
Knowledge
"Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself."
- William Shakespeare
Wisdom
"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."
- William Shakespeare
Awareness
"Thought is free."
- William Shakespeare
Liberation
"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
- William Shakespeare
Honesty
"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
- William Shakespeare
Integrity
"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."
- William Shakespeare
Success
"I am not bound to please thee with my answer."
- William Shakespeare
Self-confidence
"Let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me"
- William Shakespeare
Belief in Self
"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."
- William Shakespeare
Adversity
"What is past is prologue."
- William Shakespeare
Philosophy
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."
- William Shakespeare
Wisdom
"I bear a charmed life."
- William Shakespeare
Belief in Self
"Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds."
- William Shakespeare
Taking Risks
"In time we hate that which we often fear."
- William Shakespeare
Awareness
"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise."
- William Shakespeare
Wisdom
"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
- William Shakespeare
Integrity
"Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast."
- William Shakespeare
Wisdom
"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short."
- William Shakespeare
Happiness
"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."
- William Shakespeare
Wisdom
"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."
- William Shakespeare
Integrity
"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."
- William Shakespeare
Reflection
"All that glisters is not gold."
- William Shakespeare
Wisdom
"Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find."
- William Shakespeare
Wisdom
"How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!"
- William Shakespeare
Adversity
"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
- William Shakespeare
Wisdom
"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
- William Shakespeare
Perseverance
"O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant."
- William Shakespeare
Responsibility
"All that glitters is not gold."
- William Shakespeare
Philosophy
"Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown."
- William Shakespeare
Responsibility
"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."
- William Shakespeare
Reflection
"Listen to many, speak to a few."
- William Shakespeare
Wisdom
"There is no darkness but ignorance."
- William Shakespeare
Knowledge
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."
- William Shakespeare
Adversity
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on"
- William Shakespeare
Philosophy
"What’s past is prologue."
- William Shakespeare
Philosophy
"All the world’s a stage"
- William Shakespeare
Philosophy
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
- William Shakespeare
Philosophy
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
- William Shakespeare
Responsibility
"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."
- William Shakespeare
Morality
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
- William Shakespeare
Empathy
"What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet"
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
- William Shakespeare
Adversity
"Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains."
- William Shakespeare
Peace
"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."
- William Shakespeare
Awareness
"Though she be but little, she is fierce."
- William Shakespeare
Strength
"But come what may, I do adore thee so that danger shall seem sport, and I will go"
- William Shakespeare
Bravery
"Farewell, fair cruelty."
- William Shakespeare
Forgiveness
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
- William Shakespeare
Awareness
"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."
- William Shakespeare
Strength
"'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of."
- William Shakespeare
Contentment
"If music be the food of love, play on"
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?"
- William Shakespeare
Love
"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
- William Shakespeare
Reflection
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
- William Shakespeare
Wisdom
"Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."
- William Shakespeare
Awareness
"How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath to say to me that thou art out of breath?"
- William Shakespeare
Wisdom
"If I be waspish, best beware of my sting"
- William Shakespeare
Bravery
"Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak."
- William Shakespeare
Self-awareness
"There's many a man has more hair than wit."
- William Shakespeare
Insight
"As, I confess, it is my nature's plague To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy Shapes faults that are not."
- William Shakespeare
Self-awareness
"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything."
- William Shakespeare
Relationships
"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me."
- William Shakespeare
Honesty
"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
- William Shakespeare
Wisdom
"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"
- William Shakespeare
Philosophy
"I dote on his very absence."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue."
- William Shakespeare
Wisdom
"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."
- William Shakespeare
Adversity
"The spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries, and the mazèd world By their increase now knows not which is which."
- William Shakespeare
Change
"O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil."
- William Shakespeare
Philosophy
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
- William Shakespeare
Insight
"I will praise any man that will praise me."
- William Shakespeare
Self-esteem
"My pride fell with my fortunes."
- William Shakespeare
Adversity
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind"
- William Shakespeare
Love
"He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer."
- William Shakespeare
Insight
"Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."
- William Shakespeare
Reflection
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
- William Shakespeare
Integrity
"Nothing can come of nothing."
- William Shakespeare
Philosophy
"Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions."
- William Shakespeare
Environment
"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy—rich, not gaudy, For the apparel oft proclaims the man."
- William Shakespeare
Self-awareness
"Good company, good wine, good welcome can make good people"
- William Shakespeare
Happiness
"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."
- William Shakespeare
Awareness
"A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"
- William Shakespeare
Taking Risks
"I like not fair terms and a villain's mind."
- William Shakespeare
Awareness
"Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed."
- William Shakespeare
Love
"The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch"
- William Shakespeare
Awareness
"'I can see that he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.'"
- William Shakespeare
Wisdom
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
Love
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
Achievement
"They do not love that do not show their love."
Love
"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."
Love
"He jests at scars that never felt a wound."
Adversity
"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
Morality