Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

We think caged birds sing when indeed they cry.

Integrity of life is fames best friend which nobly beyond death shall crown in the end.

Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.

Whether we fall by ambition blood or lust like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows daws and starlings that flock together.

Man may his fate foresee but not prevent ... Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.