Sentence examples for was not ambition from inspiring English sources

Some might say that it was not ambition so much as impatience that unseated Archer; people in a hurry to be famous, rich, or both, are apt to cut corners, truth being one of the easiest to trim.

"It wasn't ambition; it was just I'm going to pull myself up and keep moving forward.

It's not ambition but obligation".

Whatever his buildings lack, it isn't ambition — they're always more than they have to be, which is precisely the trouble.

This isn't ambition: she doesn't expect to be prime minister, quite likely not leader either.

Money, he said, was not his ambition.

Mr. Zellerbach was not without ambition.

This was not an ambition destined for fulfillment.

"Being a team owner was not an ambition – it just evolved as the only solution to the Honda problem".

This was not an ambition, but it is a kind of apo­logia for using words like soul and spirit.

"Some players have voted with their feet as they felt there was not enough ambition," he said.