Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.
I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow.
Virtue is choked with foul ambition.