A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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.
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.
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
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.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.