“To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our...” — Walter Scott Quote

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

My character in 'Casa de mi Padre' is an ambitious woman. I had never played that kind of character before.

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.

Be ambitious. The great actor, director and playwright Ann Jellicoe commissioned writers like Howard Barker and David Edgar, and put on magnificent, large-scale plays in Dorset that involved the whole community.

When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.