If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
I think ambition can be having something that you're good at and love to do.
In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
I don't even think in terms of ambition.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
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 poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.