William Shakespeare Adversity Quotes

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

- William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

- William Shakespeare

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

- William Shakespeare

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other side

- William Shakespeare

Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.

- William Shakespeare

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shad

- William Shakespeare

'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's ladder, where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.

- William Shakespeare

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

- William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

- William Shakespeare

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

- William Shakespeare

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

- William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

- William Shakespeare

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

- Anonymous

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

- Herbert George Wells

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

- Publilius Syrus

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

- Harry Truman

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made

- Sophocles

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

- Bion

One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

- Sophocles

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

- Bible