William Shakespeare Quotes About Growth

• To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.549

• Presume not that I am the thing I was.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Philosophy, History

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 5, sc. 5, l. [61]

• We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Business, Good Life

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [43]

• Tears water our growth.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Grieving, Water

• When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree.

  William Shakespeare

  Smell, Giving, Rose

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 1

• The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair; A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, Pride

  William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems”, p.775

• O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Brother, Growth

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.447, BookCaps Study Guides

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