Top 30 Quotes On Ambition By Shakespeare

#1. I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

Ian Fleming

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#2. If I could mimic the dynamic of any Shakespearean marriage, I'd choose to mimic the Macbeths - before the murder, ruthless ambition, and torturous descents into madness and death, that is.

Jillian Keenan

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#3. I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.

William Shakespeare

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#4. Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars
That 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!

William Shakespeare

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#5. Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!

William Shakespeare

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#6. 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.

William Shakespeare

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#7. Ambition should be made from sterner stuff.

William Shakespeare

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#8. Ambition's debt is paid.

William Shakespeare

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#9. Pride went before, ambition follows him.

William Shakespeare

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#10. I had always wanted to retell a Shakespeare play. It was an ambition from college days. But in order to be able to do it ... the circumstances in my life didn't come together for a long time.

Chris Adrian

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#11. Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

Beau Willimon

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#12. I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other.

William Shakespeare

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#13. Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

William Shakespeare

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#14. Which dreams indeed are ambition;for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. A dream itself is but a shadow.

William Shakespeare

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#15. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

William Shakespeare

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#16. The very substance of ambition is merely the shadow of a dream.

William Shakespeare

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#17. 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.

William Shakespeare

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#18. When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.

William Shakespeare

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#19. Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit a kingdom for it was to small a bound. But now two paces of the vilest earth are room enough

William Shakespeare

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#20. I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?

William Shakespeare

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#21. Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

William Shakespeare

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#22. Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars
That make ambition virtue.

William Shakespeare

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#23. Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.

William Shakespeare

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#24. Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side

William Shakespeare

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#25. That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on th' other.

William Shakespeare

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#26. Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition

William Shakespeare

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#27. Love and meekness, lord,
Become a churchman better than ambition:
Win straying souls with modesty again,
Cast none away.

William Shakespeare

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#28. 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.

William Shakespeare

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#29. Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

William Shakespeare

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#30. Tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar

Liaquat Ahamed

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