Sentence examples for ounce of ambition from inspiring English sources

There is little work beyond subsistence farming, and any young person with an ounce of ambition and some money to make the trip heads for the townships and cities of South Africa.

If you have even an ounce of ambition, do you really want to spend it trying to be stupid?

He was just 23, which displays the kind of ambition Wall Street applauds but which anyone with an ounce of sense should find nauseating and darkly comic.

Nobody has considered the cost of ambition.

Followed closely by lack of ambition.

They were full of ambition".

Repression of ambition, of creativity.

The danger of ambition.

He said that he was not motivated by personal ambition, and that there was "not an ounce of difficulty" between him and his colleagues in Parliament over the issue.

The ambition of the character and the actor coalesce; Radcliffe throws every ounce of his being into the show.

Mix two ounces of misanthropy, one ounce of anomie and a jigger of acrid humor.