Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
I think ambition can be having something that you're good at and love to do.
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 - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.
Ambition must be made to counteract 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 is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.