Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.
Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.
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 is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
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 never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
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 a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
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