As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.

Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impels it to absurdity, or sours it with discontent.

“The ambition is not simply to do some tokenism. This is to create real, sustainable jobs and businesses targeted principally at the communities around De Beers operations.”

“I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.”

“We continue with our stated ambition for sustainable growth as we seek to expand the business by organic means, through joint ventures, and by acquisition,”

“Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay. Not here - not now.”

“I didn't have high goals and high ambitions, and that I was going to become the world's greatest jewel thief. It got out of hand.”

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.