William Shakespeare Quotes

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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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Baruch Spinoza
- Power
- Desire
- Ambition
I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

Octavia E. Butler
- Black
- City
- Water
So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

Katey Sagal
- Life
- Time
- She
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Walter Savage Landor
- Ambition
- Avarice
We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.

Otto Schily
- Common
- Tax
- Particularly
When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.

Yves Rossy
- World
- Light
- Dark