what is ambition
1 Ambition is as hollow as the soul of an echo âAnon. 2  Ambition is a sort of work âKahlil Gibran. 3  Ambition is like a treadmill â¦ you no sooner get to the end of it than you begin again âJosh Billings.  Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite âJosh Billings.