Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
My ambition is to be happy.
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
Ambition aspires to descend.
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.