A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, w ...

A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

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

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

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.

Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.

But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last To basest things.

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.