Sentence examples for honorable ambition from inspiring English sources

It's an honorable ambition, but it's foolhardy.

Today this sounds as quaint as the house rules of the Augusta National Golf Club, but I think it's exactly right; impartiality is altogether a more honorable ambition than the sentimental "fairness".

Mr. Salgado, a concerned journalist, produces reportage and propaganda, an honorable ambition but different from Evans's, which doesn't preclude Mr. Salgado's making great art (see Goya and David) but doesn't strictly require it, either.

But first, of course, Jackie must learn some valuable lessons about the price of success and struggle with the inner conflict between her generous, honorable impulses and her ravenous ambition.

This blending of a new visual method, unfamiliar to many eyes, with the stream of verbal acidity is hardly an unqualified success, but the ambition is an honorable one, and the unhappy land that the film reveals is not one that Nichols cared to revisit, on the big screen, for too long.

The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venial love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace".

Are we intentionally spreading the philosophy that it is somehow more honorable to pursue traditional landmarks than individual ambitions?

The series is one of a number now on television to break with a long strain of tradition by casting ambition as something healthy, positive, redemptive and even honorable, and its absence an agent of ostentatious humiliation.

I, for one, saw with my own eyes that Paul Ryan, whom I had viewed as a wrongheaded-but-essentially-honorable conservative, was willing to turn his back on his supposedly courageous positions the minute his own ambition was at stake.

When that the poor have cried, Kansas hath swept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Dickie V. says Kansas was ambitious; And Dickie V. is an honorable man.

These are honorable aims.