When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank .

Hitch your wagon to a star .

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions .

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven .

When that the poor have cried,

Caeser hath wept:

Ambition shoud be made of sterner stuff:

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honorable man .

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest .

Ambition destroys its possessor .

Ambition has but one reward for all:

A little power, a little transient fame,

A grave