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| All are desirous to win the prize. | 1 |
| Ambition has no rest. Bulwer. | 2 |
Ambition hath one heel nailed in hell,
Though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. Lilly. | 3 |
| Ambition is as hollow as the soul of an echo. | 4 |
| Ambition is no cure for love. Scott. | 5 |
| Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds. | 6 |
| Ambition is the mind’s immodesty. Davenant. | 7 |
| Ambition is the soldier’s virtue. Shakespeare. | 8 |
| Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. Beecher. | 9 |
| Ambition is torment enough for an enemy. | 10 |
| Ambition knows no gorge but the grave. Carl Seelbach. | 11 |
| Ambition like a torrent ne’er looks back. Ben Jonson. | 12 |
| Ambition, thou powerful source of good or ill. Young. | 13 |
| Blind ambition quite mistakes her road. Young. | 14 |
| Blood only serves to wash ambition’s hands. Byron. | 15 |
| Black ambition stains a public cause. Pope. | 16 |
| By jumping at the stars you may fall in the mud. | 17 |
| Climb not too high lest the fall be the greater. | 18 |
| Earth’s worst tempters, gold and ambition. Bulwer. | 19 |
| Fling away ambition, by that sin fell the angels. Shakespeare. | 20 |
| He cannot see the river, his heart is set on leaping the dragon gate. Chinese. | 21 |
| He has gone in search of the (fabulous) birds of the sea. (Said of an ambitious person.) African. | 22 |
| He that cuts above himself will get splinters in his eye. | 23 |
| He that heweth above his height may have a chip in his eye. | 24 |
| He who would rise in the world should veil his ambition with the forms of humanity. Chinese. | 25 |
| He would fain fly but wants feathers. | 26 |
| He would open his hand in order to grasp the moon in the heavens, he would plunge into the sea to grasp leviathan. Chinese. | 27 |
In heaven ambition cannot dwell,
Nor avarice in the vaults of hell. Southey. | 28 |
| It is a mean ambition to be the ’squire of the company. | 29 |
| Proud ambition is but a beggar. Daniel. | 30 |
| The trap to the high born is ambition. | 31 |
| There is no eel so small but it hopes to become a whale. German. | 32 |
| There is no fir tree so small it does not expect to become a cedar. German. | 33 |
| There is nothing humbler than ambition when it is about to climb. Franklin. | 34 |
Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up
Thine own life’s means. Shakespeare. | 35 |
| To take ambition from a soldier is to rob him of his spurs. | 36 |
| Vaulting ambition o’erleaps itself. Shakespeare. | 37 |
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