Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
We all have ambitions, but only the few achieve. A man thinks of a good thing and says: 'Now if I only had the money I'd put that through.' The word 'if' was a dent in his courage. With character fully established, his plan well thought out, he had only to go to those in command of capital and it would have been forthcoming.
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.