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

—William Shakespeare

About William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard"....

More quotations from William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

—William Shakespeare

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

—William Shakespeare

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.

—William Shakespeare

A man I am cross'd with adversity.

—William Shakespeare

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

—William Shakespeare

More quotations tagged with “ambition”

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

—Robert Jackson

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

—Pearl Bailey

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

—Niccolo Machiavelli

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