William Shakespeare Human nature Quotes

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

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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

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

- Martha Washington

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

- Marcus Aurelius

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

- Epictetus

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

- Anonymous

The worst part of having a mental illness is that people expect you to behave as if you don't.

- The Joker (Arthur Fleck)

The new trend of capturing pics instead of enjoying the experience is not new. Human mind has been doing that for ages. Your mind tries to capture the experience by naming, defining, judging, comparing and categorizing everything. As a result, your soul misses the live dance of colours, sounds, shapes and sensations happening before you.

- Shunya

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

- Thomas Edison

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

- Thomas Edison

What you are will show in what you do

- Thomas Edison

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe