I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.
I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy.
I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.
My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.
In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.
Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.
I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
I was utterly without worldly ambition because I knew that all that was needed for a rich, full life was a few shillings a week with which to buy SF magazines and beer.
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.