The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
Theophrastus

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Robert Burton

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
Roger Ebert

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
Derek Jarman

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Sigmund Freud

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

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
William Feather

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
Peter Ustinov

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
Peter Ustinov

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

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
James K. Polk

There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.
Giorgio Armani

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
Alfred P. Sloan

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Henry Van Dyke

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
Charles Babbage

There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.
Trevor Phillips

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.
James L. Buckley

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Hosea Ballou

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
Quintilian