Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

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

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book what everyone else does not say in a book.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

I think that people in their 20s actually aren't given enough credit for their ambition.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.