Check out my favorite Shakespeare quotes that still inspire and motivate us even though they come from the 16th century. And, it’s the magic that we can find in these small gems of wisdom. From “Romeo and Juliet” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to “Hamlet” and “Macbeth”, we all have a favorite play and words to remember. So, in this post, I share my favorite Shakespeare quotes that I find extremely motivational and truly inspirational.


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My favorite Shakespeare quotes

Benefits of reading Shakespeare

Moreover, research has shown that complicated poetry and prose can be beneficial and therapeutical for our brains. According to a survey at the University of Liverpool, complicated poetry and prose can activate important areas in both hemispheres of the human brain. And, they can act therapeutically on the mind. So, poetry and prose don’t have only cultural and educational value. But, they benefit our brain like exercising and sports benefit our body.


Mindset

“All things are ready, if our mind be so.”

William Shakespeare, King Henry V

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

William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Self-love

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”

William Shakespeare, King Henry V

“Life is too short, so live your life to the fullest..every second of your life just treasure it.”

William Shakespeare

Faults

“They say the best men are moulded out of faults; And for the most, become much more the better for being a little bad”.

William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“The fault is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.”

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Self-knowledge

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

William Shakespeare, As you like it

“Who can be wise, amazed, temp’rate, and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.”

William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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Attitude and life

“And though she be but little she is FIERCE.”

William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well

“Have more than thou showest,

Speak less than thou knowest”

William Shakespeare, The Fool in King Lear

“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”

William Shakespeare, The Fool in King Lear

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About World

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”

William Shakespeare, Sonnet XCVIII

“Thy Eternal Summer Shall Not Fade.”

William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

“O, brave new world that has such people in’t!”

William Shakespeare, The Tempest



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