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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

I think ambition can be having something that you're good at and love to do.

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

I don't even think in terms of ambition.

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.