Macbeth quotes ambition

I have no spur… but only vaulting ambition.”

Macbeth admits the only thing driving him to kill Duncan is his own dangerous ambition.

Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

He recognizes and hides his ambitious wish to become king.

To be thus is nothing, / But to be safely thus.”

To be thus is nothing, / But to be safely thus.”

“Glamis, thou art; and Cawdor; and shalt be / What thou art promised.”

She immediately commits to fulfilling the witches’ prophecy through ambition-fueled action.

Art not without ambition

She says Macbeth has ambition, but not the ruthlessness needed to achieve it.

All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!”

Their prophecy sparks Macbeth’s ambition.

Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths…

Banquo warns that ambition fueled by prophecy can lead to destruction.