"The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms"

"Ambition is not a vice of little people"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked"

"Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all"

"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure"

"Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds"

"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend"

"An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition"

"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory"

"That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty"