Has not your insatiable ambition brought us to this?
Cao's ambition brought all of his enemies against him and created dissension within the clique.
Before the mania phase becomes too extreme, its energy, ambition, enthusiasm and grandiosity often bring people with this type of mood disorder life's masterpieces.
To see snow-capped mountains in the distance, warns you that your longings and ambitions will bring no worthy advancement.
On his deathbed he clearly realised where his ambition had brought the entire country, but was unable to say anything due to serious brain damage.
But did an arrogant and unbounded ambition necessarily bring damnation?
But ambition would always bring about his ruin because he would freely make the same choice.
This declared ambition to reach a broad readership beyond the closed bastions of academia brings one to the first fissure in the book.
But global ambitions and other distractions brought the Met different fish to fry.
"His ambition may bring you down one day," Aristotle warned.