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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.
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.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
If you sell yourself short before you even start, you'll never know how far you could have gone. Ambition is a wonderful thing and has gotten me farther than I ever thought I'd go.
If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty.
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
I think ambition can be having something that you're good at and love to do.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.