| Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. |
| Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. |
| Ambition can creep as well as soar. |
| Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be. |
| Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. |
| A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. |
| All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. |
| Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. |
| Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. |
| Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. |