The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
William Feather
Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose
Frank Tyger
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 rumour.
Aldous Huxley
Vanity makes men ridiculous, pride odious and ambition terrible.
Sir Richard Steele
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Robert Southey
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
Baltasar Gracian
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
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
Samuel Johnson
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes
Chinese Proverbs
Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.
Jack Handy
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Buddha
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Jonathan Swift