All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All ambitions are lawful except those that 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.
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
I don't even think in terms of ambition.
Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.
Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
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.