Duty was not untinged by ambition.

Ambition is the capacity for unhappiness.

Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.

Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.

... sometimes love becomes a power game between ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

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.

“We had ambition to burn.”

“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.”