100+ Powerful Julius Caesar Quotes That Inspire Leaders & Thinkers

"Cassius from bondage will deliver Rome... If the redress will follow, thou receivest thy full petition at the hand of Cassius this night."

"Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus."

"But for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be in awe of such a thing as I myself."

"I know no personal cause to spurn at him, but for the general."

"He would be crown'd: How that might change his nature, there's the question."

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."

"Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault... is in ourselves, that we are underlings."

"There is no fear in him; let him not die."

"Caesar should be a beast without a heart if he should stay at home today for fear."

"What touches us ourself shall be last served."

"When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." (Paraphrased sentiment)

"Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!"

"You are my true and honourable wife, As dear to me as are the ruddy drops that visit my sad heart."

"Did I, indeed, help kill Caesar? Vouchsafe good morrow, gentlemen."

"Brutus had rather be a villager than to repute himself a son of Rome under these hard conditions."

"O, he sits high in all the people's hearts."

"They that have done this deed are honorable."

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."

"For Brutus is an honourable man; so are they all, all honourable men."

"He was my friend, faithful and just to me."

"And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it."

"Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?"

"Tears, hollow tears, soon dried by folly’s breath."

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."

"Men at some time are masters of their fates."

"What can be avoided whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?"

"The ides of March are come."

"Ay, Caesar; but not gone."

"It seems to me y'are strangely bent to knowledge."

"A man no mightier than thyself or me in personal action, yet prodigious grown."

"He doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus."

"Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he."

"I am constant as the northern star."

"How foolish do your fears seem now!"

"The gods do this in shame of cowardice."

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."

"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."

"For Brutus is an honourable man."

"He hath brought many captives home to Rome, whose ransoms did the general coffers fill."

"Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?"

"When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept."

"Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honourable man."

"I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse."

"Was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious."

"You all did love him once, not without cause."

"Bear with me; my heart is in the coffin there with Caesar."

"I am constant as the northern star."

"Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace tonight."

"Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men."

"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much."

"He loves no plays, he hears no music."

"Such men as he be never at heart's ease while they behold a greater than themselves."

"Caesar should fly."

"I could be well moved, if I were as you."

"I am as constant as the northern star, of whose true-fix’d and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament."

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."

"I rather tell thee what is to be feared than what I fear."

"Age, thou art shamed! Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!"

"I killed not thee with half so good a will."

"As Caesar loved me, I weep for him."

"As he was fortunate, I rejoice at it."

"As he was valiant, I honor him."

"As he was ambitious, I slew him."

"There is tears for his love, joy for his fortune, honor for his valor, and death for his ambition."

"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."

"Who is here so base that would be a bondman?"

"If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer..."

"That part of speech which said Caesar was ambitious, I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse."

"Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and sure he is an honourable man."

"Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it."

"Beware the ides of March."

"Peace! Count the clock."

"It is the part of men to fear and tremble when the most mighty gods by tokens send such dreadful heralds to astonish us."

"A lioness hath whelped in the streets, and graves have yawned and yielded up their dead."

"Prodigies do nightly appear."

"These things are not strange horrors but natural portents."

"When beggars die, there are no comets seen."

"The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."

"This dream is all amiss interpreted."

"It is a common proof that lowliness is young ambition’s ladder."

"Speak, hands, for me!"

"Caesar shall go forth, for these predictions are to the world in general as private men."

"Thou hast described a hot friend cooling."

"You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand over your friend that loves you."

"Do not stain the beauty of my faith with doubts."

"I will wait upon you."

"Good words are better than bad strokes."

"Think you I am no stronger than my sex being woman, than I can forget my father?"

"O Brutus, thou sleep’st. Awake, and see thyself!"

"So oft as that shall be, so often shall Calpurnia smile."

"You shall not stir out of your house today."

"I shall remember: when Caesar says 'do this,' it is perform'd."

"I have some pity toward thee."

"There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats."

"I am constant as the northern star."

"Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he."

"I rather tell thee what is to be feared than what I fear."

"Caesar shall go forth, for these predictions are to the world in general as private men."

"The skies are cloudy, and the winds blow ill."

"I could be well moved, if I were as you."

"He doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus."

"Age, thou art shamed! Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!"

"Cowards die many times before their deaths."

"The valiant never taste of death but once."

"What can be avoided whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?"

"I hold me as a foe worthy of your steel."

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."

"Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?"

"After this, he was crowned king, and straight the bird of night did sit upon the market-place hooting and shrieking."

"O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!"

"His life was gentle, and the elements so mix'd in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world, 'This was a man!'"

"Caesar, now be still: I killed not thee with half so good a will."

"This was the noblest Roman of them all."

"His life was gentle, and the elements so mix'd in him."

"He only, in a general honest thought and common good to all, made one of them."

"By that which fell when Caesar’s spirit went."

"O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet!"

"We shall find of him a spirit that walks abroad and turns our swords in our own proper entrails."