ambition

The other narrative is of mobility in the service of ambition.

Their authors promise that your spirit will be improved, your ambition honed, and your finances maximized by their advice.

And it led him in his teenage years to declare his ambition to become a cop.

Reid planted a flag, ready to make his mark in the world of whisky, backed by ambition and a gorgeous piece of land.

He made little secret of his ambition to become the next prime minister, much to the chagrin of Netanyahu.

Greater mischiefs happen often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

To talk German was beyond the sweep of my dizziest ambition, but an Italian runner or porter instantly presented himself.

He went on, ruminating on the vain shadow, into which his over-heated ambition to act and to be distinguished, had involved him.

So far Murat had always held subordinate commands; his great ambition was to become the commander-in-chief of an independent army.

Noble ambition—worthy of a less ignoble cause—a better fate!