James Champy, Nitin Nohria (2001), The Arc of Ambition: Defining the Leadership Journey. p. 1
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.”
Federalist No. 51 (6 February 1788)
1780s, Federalist Papers (1787–1788)
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“Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.”
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p. 25
“Ambition can never be naked in a political campaign, it must be clothed in deceit.”
As quoted in Time, Jan. 4, 2008
1948, Address to All Pakistan Muslim Youth Convention at Karachi, quoted in Speeches, Messages and Statements of Mohtarama Fatima Jinnah, p. 5

“I have no ambitions nor desires.
To be a poet is not my ambition,
It's simply my way of being alone.”
Não tenho ambições nem desejos
Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha
É a minha maneira de estar sozinho.
Alberto Caeiro (heteronym), O Guardador de Rebanhos ("The Keeper of Herds", tr. Richard Zenith) in Athena (January 1925)

“Ambition is the death of thought.”
Ehrgeiz ist der Tod des Denkens.
J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 41
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)