Ambition Quotes

“My endeavorsHave ever come too short of my desires.Yet filed with my abilities.”

“I have thrust myself into this maze,Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.”

“Ambition's debt is paid.”

“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”

“If you be King, why should not I succeed?”

“Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.”

“Farewell the plumed troop, and the big warsThat make ambition virtue! O, farewell!Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife,The royal banner, and all quality,Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!”

“I can call spirits from the vasty deep.”

“Know more than other. Work more than other. Expect less than other”

“The day shall not be up so soon as I,To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.”

“But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.”

“Men that hazard allDo it in hope of fair advantages:A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.”

“Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.”

“Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.”

“And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.”

“Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.”

“No man's pie is freedFrom his ambitious finger.”

“We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.”

“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 shadow.”

“But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.”

“Flesh and blood,You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian-Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong-Would here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee,Unnatural though thou art.”

“Be not afraid of greatness.”

“Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit;All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.”

“A politician... one that would circumvent God.”

“I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.”