William Shakespeare Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by William Shakespeare
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
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This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare 
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- William Shakespeare
When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
Done Sayings
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
While they were saying among themselves
it cannot be done, it was done.
- Helen Keller
Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
It is done to you as you believe.
- Ernest Holmes
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
O Captain. My Captain. our fearful trip is done.
- Walt Whitman
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Correcting bad habits cannot be done
by forbidding or punishment.
- Robert Baden-Powell (the founder of scouting)
A great part of courage is the courage
of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Humans are allergic to change.
They love to say, "We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
If you can speak what you will never hear,
if you can write what you will never read,
you have done rare things.
- Henry David Thoreau
Music and silence combine strongly
because music is done with silence,
and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
Leadership is the art of getting someone else
to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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