Quotes About Ambition

Your heart's desires be with you!

He was a manOf an unbounded stomach.

Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide archOf the rang'd empire fall! Here is my space.Kingdoms are clay.

And to be kingStands not within the prospect of belief.

We go to gain a little patch of groundThat hath in it no profit but the name.

Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

The air-drawn dagger.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere wellIt were done quickly; if the assassinationCould trammel up the consequence, and catchWith his surcease success; that but this blowMight be the be-all and the end-all here,But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,We'd jump the life to come.

To seek their fortunes further than at home,Where small experience grows.

See what a rent the envious Casca made.

I am in bloodStepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,To make a hazard of new fortunes here.

The raven himself is hoarseThat croaks the fatal entrance of DuncanUnder my battlements. Come, you spiritsThat tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here,And fill me from the crown to the toe top fullOf direst cruelty; make thick my blood,Stop up the access and passage to remorse,That no compunctious visitings of natureShake my fell purpose, nor keep peace betweenThe effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers.

A very riband in the cap of youth.

The force of his own merit makes his way.

I'll put a girdle round about the earthIn forty minutes.

They threw their capsAs they would hang them on the horns o' the moon,Shouting their emulation.

William Shakespeare

As she would catch another AntonyIn her strong toil of grace.

Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is.

We that are in the vaward of our youth.

I will to EgyptAnd though I make this marriage for my peace,I' the East my pleasure lies.

William Shakespeare

Every way makes my gain.