Ambition Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan Download Open image “Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.” — Richard Brinsley Sheridan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Deities Fame Motivation Proud Sovereign
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“Fame is the responsibility, the perennial discipline, the concubine who solicits and imbibes, bit by bit, the love, the relations, the serenity, and the… — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
I ne'er could any luster see in eyes that would not look on me. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
Work towards your goal and dont watch the post size,its either they hate,or like you.there is no room for both sides. — Isaac Buabeng Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
