All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
I don't even think in terms of ambition.
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.
In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.
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.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Ambition aspires to descend.