ambition

[am·bi·tion]

Ambition is a strong desire to achieve. It's what Macbeth had too much of, and what slackers have too little of.

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The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

Noun
a strong drive for success

Noun
a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business"

Verb
have as one''s ambition


n.
The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

n.
An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.

v. t.
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.


Ambition

Am*bi"tion , n. [F. ambition, L. ambitio a going around, especially of candidates for office is Rome, to solicit votes (hence, desire for office or honor fr. ambire to go around. See Ambient, Issue.] 1. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.]
[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.
2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition: By that sin fell the angels.
The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres.

Ambition

Am*bi"tion, v. t. [Cf. F. ambitionner.] To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.]
Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.

The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.

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Usage Examples

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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Other Usage Examples

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

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