Ambitious

Famous quotes containing the word ambitious:

“No man’s pie is freed
From his ambitious finger.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate us, I am almost astonished that there are so many industrious and ambitious ones to be found; although I acknowledge, with extreme sorrow, that there are some who never were and never will be serviceable to society. And have you not a similar class among yourselves?”
—Maria Stewart (1803–1879)

“Guildenstern. The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
Hamlet. A dream itself is but a shadow.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)