Time is the only critic without ambition.
John Steinbeck

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Samuel Johnson

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
Henry Drummond

To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.
Rosa Bonheur

Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
John Strachan

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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack Obama

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.
Heather Donahue

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
Oliver Herford

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
Samuel Richardson

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
Annette Funicello

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
Anna Held

When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas Merton

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
Jim Henson

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
Angela Carter

Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Henry Taylor

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Jonathan Swift

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
John Webster