A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
Pearl Bailey

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Marcus Aurelius

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
Wilson Mizner

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
Arthur Koestler

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
Steven Brust

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
Frances Burney

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam Ant

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
Paul Auster

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
Charles Cotton

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Cesare Pavese

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Noah Webster

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
James M. Barrie

Ambition aspires to descend.
Pierre Corneille

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Sallust

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

Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Walter Savage Landor