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Definition of Ambition
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.

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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

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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