#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.”

“Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”

“Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.”

“Give me a staff of honor for mine age,But not a sceptre to control the world.”

“Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.”

“He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.”

“Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition”

“The spirit of a youthThat means to be of note, begins betimes.”

“So get the start of the majestic worldAnd bear the palm alone.”

“But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.”

“I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.”

“When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.”

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.”

“Dream in light years, challenge miles, walk step by step”

“Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.”

“Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France”

“The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.”

“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”

“Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.”

“Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.”

“Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side”

“I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.”

“Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.”

“King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. Suffolk: No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protectors hawks do tower so well; They know their masters loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. Gloucester: My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.”

“Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.”

“As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”