The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

Il y avait des hommes si ambitieux qu'ils auraient torché les chefs, pour les entendre seulement dire merci.

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

That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.

I have no spurTo prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other.

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.

Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.

Dependence begets subservience and venality suffocates the germ of virtue and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition

As she sustained wound after wound...the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was Titania, the Fairy Queen.

Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put

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.