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Definition of Ambition |
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Ambition
The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something. To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. Related Definitions: About, Act, After, Ambitiously, An, And, Any, Attainment, Canvassing, Covet, Desire, Eager, Eagerly, For, Going, Honor, Inordinate, Object, Obtain, Of, Office, Or, Other, Power, Preferment, Seek, Solicit, Something, Sometimes, Superiority, The, To |
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Ambition Quotations
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. Barack Obama Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. Oscar Wilde 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. Helen Keller It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. Friedrich Nietzsche Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
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Ambition Translations
ambition in Dutch is ambitie, eerzucht ambition in French is ambicion, ambition, aspiration ambition in German is Ehrgeiz ambition in Italian is ambizione ambition in Latin is cupiditas |
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