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Morning in India is sacred and filled with hope. Sunrise brings prayers, birdsong, and the aroma of chai. Azan from the mosque or Temple bells ring, welcome a fresh beginning. Shakespeare’s words fit into India’s wisdom-rich culture. India embraces wisdom from across the world. Kabir, Tagore, and Mirabai shaped Indian poetic thought. Morning in India awakens both body and soul. Chai stalls buzz, temples echo, and cities slowly wake.

Each morning carries new possibilities and silent promises. Morning light brings new strength and endless opportunities. Resilience is found in Shakespeare’s poetic verses. Hope shines in his golden words. His wisdom guides life’s journey with purpose. For Indians, Shakespeare is a timeless philosopher. His words transcend time, culture, and distance. Students, dreamers, and seekers find meaning in him. A new morning deserves a wise beginning. Let Shakespeare’s wisdom Good Morning Quotes brighten your day.

Here is the full list of 100 Shakespeare Quotes to Inspire Your Morning with Timeless Wisdom and life lesson.

Wisdom and Life Lessons

1. “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” – As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7
2. “To thine own self be true.” – Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3
3. “The better part of valor is discretion.” – Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, Scene 4
4. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” – Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
5. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 1, Scene 1
6. “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” – Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5
7. “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” – Measure for Measure, Act 1, Scene 4
8. “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” – Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2
9. “Strong reasons make strong actions.” – King John, Act 3, Scene 4
10. “What’s past is prologue.” – The Tempest, Act 2, Scene 1

Morning and New Beginnings

11. “The golden sun salutes the morn.” – Henry VI, Part 3, Act 2, Scene 1
12. “Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.” – Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 5
13. “The day shall not be up so soon as I, to try the fair adventure of tomorrow.” – Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Scene 1
14. “Hark! The lark at heaven’s gate sings, and Phoebus ‘gins arise.” – Cymbeline, Act 2, Scene 3
15. “The weary sun hath made a golden set.” – Richard III, Act 5, Scene 3

Love and Relationships

16. “Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.” – Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
17. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” – Sonnet 18
18. “The course of true love never did run smooth.” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 1
19. “I do love nothing in the world so well as you.” – Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Scene 1
20. “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.” – Sonnet 116

Hope and Positivity

21. “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” – The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene 1
22. “The robb’d that smiles steals something from the thief.” – Othello, Act 1, Scene 3
23. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2
24. “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” – The Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 1
25. “Sweet are the uses of adversity.” – As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1

Nature and Beauty

26. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” – Troilus and Cressida, Act 3, Scene 3
27. “This our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” – As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1
28. “The earth has music for those who listen.” (Commonly attributed, but not found in Shakespeare’s works)
29. “And this, our life, finds tongues in trees.” – As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1
30. “Full many a glorious morning have I seen flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye.” – Sonnet 33

Resilience and Strength

31. “Though she be but little, she is fierce.” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 3, Scene 2
32. “Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.” – Measure for Measure, Act 2, Scene 1
33. “Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer’d.” – Cymbeline, Act 4, Scene 3
34. “What wound did ever heal but by degrees?” – Othello, Act 2, Scene 3
35. “He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.” – The Taming of the Shrew, Act 5, Scene 2

More Wisdom and Reflection

36. “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” – The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 2, Scene 2
37. “Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.” – Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2
38. “Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides.” – King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1
39. “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o’er-wrought heart and bids it break.” – Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 3
40. “O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!” – Measure for Measure, Act 3, Scene 2

Courage and Determination

41. “Be not afraid of greatness.” – Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5
42. “Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.” – Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 1
43. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on.” – The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1
44. “What man dare, I dare.” – Macbeth, Act 3, Scene 4
45. “A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 1
46. “We know what we are, but not what we may be.” – Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5
47. “Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.” – Henry VI, Part 3, Act 3, Scene 1
48. “Do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily but eat and drink as friends.” – The Taming of the Shrew, Act 1, Scene 2
49. “When words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain.” – Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1
50. “The wheel is come full circle.” – King Lear, Act 5, Scene 3

Destiny and Fate

51. “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.” – Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2
52. “When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” – Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2
53. “Men at some time are masters of their fates.” – Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2
54. “What is to be will be.” – Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3
55. “There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.” – Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 3

Friendship and Loyalty

56. “Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel.” – Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3
57. “Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.” – The Passionate Pilgrim, Poem 20
58. “I am wealthy in my friends.” – Timon of Athens, Act 2, Scene 2
59. “A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities.” – Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 3
60. “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” – All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 3, Scene 5

Time and Change

61. “Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.” – Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3
62. “The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely were too long.” – Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, Scene 2
63. “Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.” – Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 5
64. “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.” – All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 4, Scene 3
65. “O, call back yesterday, bid time return!” – Richard II, Act 3, Scene 2

Power and Ambition

66. “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” – Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, Scene 1
67. “Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other.” – Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7
68. “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition.” – Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7
69. “Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.” – Henry VIII, Act 1, Scene 1
70. “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” – Othello, Act 3, Scene 3

Justice and Morality

71. “The quality of mercy is not strain’d.” – The Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1
72. “Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.” – Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3
73. “What’s done cannot be undone.” – Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 1
74. “O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!” – Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Scene 1
75. “Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long.” – The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 2

Peace and Contentment

76. “The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords in such a just and charitable war.” – Henry IV, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 1
77. “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember.” – Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5
78. “I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.” – As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 1
79. “How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes!” – As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 2
80. “Nothing will come of nothing.” – King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1

Miscellaneous and Thought-Provoking

81. “I am not bound to please thee with my answers.” – The Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1
82. “Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.” – King John, Act 3, Scene 4
83. “A jest’s prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it.” – Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 5, Scene 2
84. “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.” – The Taming of the Shrew, Act 4, Scene 3
85. “The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.” – Measure for Measure, Act 3, Scene 1
86. “Expectation is the root of all heartache.” (Attributed to Shakespeare, but no known source)
87. “Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?” – Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2
88. “Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.” – Othello, Act 2, Scene 3
89. “He jests at scars that never felt a wound.” – Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
90. “They do not love that do not show their love.” – Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1, Scene 2
91. “My only love sprung from my only hate!” – Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 5
92. “We have seen better days.” – Timon of Athens, Act 4, Scene 2
93. “A heavy heart bears not a humble tongue.” – Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 5, Scene 2
94. “And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.” – King John, Act 4, Scene 2
95. “True it is that we have seen better days.” – As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7
96. “I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.” – Richard II, Act 5, Scene 5
97. “Great floods have flown from simple sources.” – All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 2, Scene 1
98. “All that glisters is not gold.” – The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 7
99. “Et tu, Brute?” – Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1
100. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” – Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 1