Welcome to Will Quotes, your source of inspiration and wisdom from one of the most revered playwrights and poets in history, William Shakespeare. Throughout the ages, Shakespeare’s words have resonated with audiences worldwide, transcending time and culture with their profound insights into the human condition. Whether you’re seeking motivation, solace, or simply a moment of reflection, the timeless wisdom encapsulated in Shakespeare’s quotes is sure to leave an indelible mark on your heart and mind.
From the poignant tragedy of Romeo and Juliet to the timeless comedy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s works are a treasure trove of memorable lines that continue to captivate and inspire. His keen observations on love, friendship, ambition, and the complexities of human nature offer invaluable lessons for navigating life’s myriad challenges and joys. Join us on a journey through the eloquent prose and lyrical poetry of William Shakespeare as we explore the depths of his unparalleled literary legacy.
Below, you’ll find a curated selection of quotes from Shakespeare’s vast body of work, each one brimming with profound insight and poetic beauty. Whether you choose to incorporate these quotes into your daily life, share them with loved ones, or simply admire their elegance, we invite you to immerse yourself in the timeless wisdom of William Shakespeare.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. Bruce Lee
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mahatma Gandhi
Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars. Les Brown
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw
Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen. Conan O’Brien
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein
Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah. Abu Bakr
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Confucius
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? John Wooden
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. Lao Tzu
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. Napoleon Bonaparte
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. Joseph Campbell
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here. Ram Dass
He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination. Jose Rizal
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see. Matthew Henry
Leap, and the net will appear. John Burroughs
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. Bill Gates
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. Sun Tzu
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. Winston Churchill
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does. Napoleon Hill
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use. Joseph Stalin
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. William Tecumseh Sherman
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Albert Schweitzer
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. Nelson Mandela
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. Dr. Seuss
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. Friedrich Nietzsche
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. Aeschylus
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. Lance Armstrong
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Eliot
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. E. O. Wilson
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination. Joseph B. Wirthlin
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. Anais Nin
Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. George Herbert
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. Theodore Roosevelt
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. D. H. Lawrence
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough. Frank Crane
Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all. Jules Verne
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. David Mamet
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde
Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. Earl Nightingale
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. Charles Spurgeon
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Maya Angelou
The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine. Yasser Arafat
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek. Mario Andretti
Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. Dwayne Johnson
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn
However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good. B. R. Ambedkar
Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day. Jesus Christ
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. George Washington
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. Aristotle
Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom. John F. Kennedy
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. Oprah Winfrey
There is nothing impossible to him who will try. Alexander the Great
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. Swami Vivekananda
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. H. L. Mencken
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. Jacob Riis
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Vaclav Havel
In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was ‘Help me.’ Sometimes a prayer was ‘Thank you.’ What I’ve discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away. Iyanla Vanzant
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. W. Clement Stone
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. William Wordsworth
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. John Keats
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. William James
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. Lewis Carroll
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. Muhammad Ali
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. Denis Waitley
I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of. Cristiano Ronaldo
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. Ray Bradbury
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D’Angelo
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. Ernest Holmes
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. Vladimir Lenin
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. Desmond Tutu
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. Audrey Hepburn
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. Jawaharlal Nehru
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Franklin D. Roosevelt
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. Brian Tracy
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh
Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let’s not be afraid to receive each day’s surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity. Henri Nouwen
Be not afraid of discomfort. If you can’t put yourself in a situation where you are uncomfortable, then you will never grow. You will never change. You’ll never learn. Jason Reynolds
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. Ernest Hemingway
Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success. Virat Kohli
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. Og Mandino
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. Steve Jobs
