A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.
My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.
I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
My one ambition is to play a hero.