More quotations tagged with “ambition”
Routine in an intelligent person is a sign of ambition.
—W. H. Auden
Virtue is choked with foul ambition.
—William Shakespeare
Lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend
—William Shakespeare
I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow.
—William Shakespeare
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