Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
John Ruskin
I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.
Paul Ryan
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Carl Sagan
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Sallust
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its... →
Jose Saramago
If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
E. F. Schumacher
I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
Taiye Selasi
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.
Paul Shaffer