ambition

[æmˈbɪʃn]

Definition:
1. A cherished desire.
2. Something that you want to do or achieve very much.
3. The desire to be successful, rich, or powerful.

Similar: ambitious

'ambition' example sentence:

1. The great ambition is spurring him on.
2. Women were not supposed to parade their ambition nakedly.
3. They were not the only ones to have brains and ambition.
4. All this can dampen one's spirit and weaken the motivation, ambition and faith, but a state of emotional and mental detachment will prevent all that.
5. Simpson's ruthless ambition and weakness for self-promotion has not made him the most popular journalist in the BBC.
6. After so much success over such a long period, ambition is a nebulous concept for Clarke.
7. It is still not enough, though, to knock her incredible determination and ambition.
8. And in keeping it, they had no other difficulty than that which arose among themselves from their own ambition.
9. I admire her ambition.
10. His ambition quickly drove him to New York.
11. Apple TV withered not for lack of potential, but for lack of ambition.
12. On the other hand, it would be surprising if they had equal levels of ambition.
13. For once, nobody could accuse them of lacking ambition.
14. Her father had found an outlet for his ambition in his work.
15. His ambition is to sail round the world.
16. Some people don't get to achieve one ambition, and that's a hard thing for me to take sometimes.
17. His ambition to succeed was clear.
18. He was intelligent but suffered from a lack of ambition.
19. She never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer.
20. The other way it shares an ambition of modernism is precisely in that effort to communicate experience, consciousness.
21. There will be times where you will doubt yourself, your ideas, and your ambition.
22. She always had an ambition to act.