The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.
Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Anybody can be ambitious.
It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?
Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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 an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.