William Shakespeare Greatness Quotes

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

- William Shakespeare

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other side

- William Shakespeare

Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.

- William Shakespeare

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shad

- William Shakespeare

'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's ladder, where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.

- William Shakespeare

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

- William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

- William Shakespeare

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

- William Shakespeare

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

- William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

- William Shakespeare

I don't want to be good. I am going to be great.

- Pablo Escobar

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

- Lao Tzu

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth

- Charles Darwin

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

- Marcus Aurelius

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

- Publius Syrus

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

- Warren Buffett

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge

- Daniel Boorstin

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

- Mother Teresa

Life should be great rather than long.

- Ambedkar

The price of greatness is responsibility.

- Winston Churchill