Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Lao Tzu

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
Edward Dahlberg

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis Presley

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
Emile M. Cioran

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Thomas Otway

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Milan Kundera

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Shakti Gawain

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Buddha

Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Michel de Montaigne

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
Bryant H. McGill

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Robert Browning

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
William Eardley, IV

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Bill Bradley

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