Ambition: strong desire for advancement. Ambition applies to the desire for personal advancement or preferment and may suggest equally a praiseworthy or an inordinate desire
It has many meaning to many people and we all look at ambition different, accordingly to Webster’s this is the definition of ambition. What does it mean to you? To me: if you work hard enough and have the skills nothing can stop you from achieving your goals.
What do you suppose Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor used to drive her ambitions all these years? They are calling her story an all American once in a lifetime story. However I think it’s a modern day tail of what happens if you work hard and applied yourself. Ms. Sotomayer probably hasn’t taken many lavish vacations and probably hasn’t worked less than 60 hours a week in many years. Because where she is is where she always saw herself to be and that place is the Supreme Court.
Ambition means something different to each of us. Everyone who speaks the term hears a message that applies to only them. Ambition can mean finding a good job that gives you the ability to meet your financial obligations or it can mean something as large as being appointed to the Supreme Court.
What’s important is this: Are you are ambitious enough to make yourself happy? If you can answer this questions with confidence than you can hold head up high!
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