Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
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.
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.
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.
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.
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.