Ambition Quote by William Shakespeare

Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a…

— William Shakespeare

“Of all ill, Self-chosen sorrows are the worst to bear.”

— Sophocles

“The noble and high born cannot endure grief.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“I stopped trying to rank sorrow, realized that the world has sorrow enough for all of us, and when some of it falls to…

— Beth Ann Fennelly

“that his current state of sorrow was not uniquely his, not at all, but, rather, its like had been felt, would yet be felt,…

— George Saunders

“Those who are born of grief give greatest delight to the outside world.”

— Franz Schubert

“if adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, strong of soul and more indignant about…

— Immanuel Kant

“Bitter the day of birth, for death is its companion. Yet, though life be cold and cruel, we are not without a last consolation.…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

“You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no…

— Seneca

“No, I do know that I was born To age, misfortune, sickness, grief: But I will bear these with that scorn As shall not…

— Ben Jonson

“The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of…

— Dean Koontz

“When I'm brave and strong, and care for children and the sick and the poor, I become a better person. And when I'm cruel,…

— Ken Follett