The Compulsion to Prove OneselfOften found at the beginning is excessive ambition.

But his enemies saw the same qualities in a less favorable light, and ascribed to him excessive ambition, arrogance and manipulativeness.

Greed and excessive ambition can stand in the way of obtaining benefit or success.

Complementing these stories of excessive ambition are narratives of abstinence.

This overview does not suffer from excessive ambition.

Stalin's victims were accused of many things, all more serious than Mr. Yeltsin's crime of "political immaturity," and "excessive ambition."

Reina de Corazones is a love story marked by falsehood, rivalry and excessive ambition.

A much lesser beauty that confined itself within its own limitations would not impart this aura of failure, of excessive ambition unrealized.

A light touch, no excessive ambition but an evident enthusiasm, produced a masterpiece.

Some leaders accuse each other of excessive ambition, or even of being Government plants.