Ambition

• "Fit to govern! No, not to live." (Act 4, Scene 3) - Macduff
• "Dispute it like a man." (Act 4, Scene 3) Malcom
• "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!" (Act 1, Scene 3) Three Witches
• "But that myself should be the root and father of many kings." (Act 3, Scene 1) Banquo
• "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't." (Act 1) Lady Macbeth
• "Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty." (Act 1, Scene 5) Lady Macbeth
• "I am in blood stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er." (Act 3, Scene 4) Macbeth
• "The prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o'erleap." (Act 1) Macbeth
• "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir." (Act 1, Scene 3) Macbeth
• "To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done." (Act 4, Scene 1) Macbeth
• "Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature gives way to in repose." (Act 2, Scene 1) Banquo
• Thou wouldst be great Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it (Act 1 Scene 5) Lady Macbeth
• To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus (Act 3 Scene 3)
• 'Two truths are told / As happy prologues to the swelling act / Of the imperial theme' (1,3).
• 'If good, why do I yield to that suggestion / Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, / And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, / Against the use of nature?' (1,3).
• 'If chance will have me king, why then chance may crown me, / Without my stir' (1,3).