- It is not natural; but arises, like false ambition in men, from a love of power.

Satire 1.6, Non quia, Maecenas ("Not because, Maecenas"), rejects false ambition.

You are washed clean of false ambition.

Should White get carried away by false ambition - 45 Kb5?

Had filled her with false ambition and driven her to a dead end in the road she'd thought would roll on forever.

Progressive taxes created instead a society of wranglers, cheaters, peculiar manipulations, false ambitions and new injustices.

He'd discovered how badly false ambition could distort perception and judgment: he had believed what he wanted to believe about Laura, never what the facts suggested.

But as dictator he had made the fatal mistake of seeking to make a martial, imperial Great Power of a country which lacked the industrial resources to become one and whose people, unlike the Germans, were too civilized, too sophisticated, too down to earth to be attracted by such false ambitions.

That such a scene might stir the less expensively dressed to emulate the more expensively dressed could scarcely be laid at the door of anything save the false ambition of the minds of those so affected.

Chant is only a daydream in the mind of a young romantic author, for it takes years of brooding and of guilt, of self-criticism and of self-justification, to clear from the eyes the haze of hopes and dreams and false ambitions.