Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
Ben Jonson

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
Wilfred Owen

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
James Madison

Ambition never comes to an end.
Kenneth Kaunda

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Susan Sontag

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
Philip Massinger

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambrose Bierce

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.
Sheldon Jackson

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
Michael Korda

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
Johnny Depp

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
Lynn Davies

As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
Hamid Karzai

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Salvador Dali

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
Brian Eno

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
Charles Baudelaire

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.
Eydie Gorme