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
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Abraham Lincoln
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Lao Tzu
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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