William Shakespeare Quotes About Success

• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 5, l. [158]

• 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

• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”, p.281

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

• Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Death, Veterans Day

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

• Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Success, Fear

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.35

• To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Honesty, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [179]

• Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Family

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.171, BookCaps Study Guides

• Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Mind, Mars

• I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Rust, Perpetual

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [247]

• Fortune is merry,
  And in this mood will give us anything.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Giving, Mood

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [271]

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