William Shakespeare Quotes About Greatness
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Some are born great, others achieve greatness.
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GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
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There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.
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Be not afraid of greatness.
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O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.
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He is not great who is not greatly good.
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They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.
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Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.
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I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
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Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
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Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.
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Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
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No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
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Greatness knows itself.
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Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?
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Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
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Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!
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I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
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