ALL
ABOUT AMBITION
“Ambition” is life’s zest and seal.
It is literally defined as “something that you want to do or achieve very much. An
ambitious person is determined to be successful by using all his physical, mental,
material and moral resources.
Ambitions can be small as well as big,
short-term as well as long-term.
Most of the ambitions require
suitable talents and appropriate resources like money, time, knowledge,
techniques, co-operation, supporters , guides, etc.
Ambitions can be of various types
like becoming an educationist, a writer, an army officer, a political leader, a government official,
a great businessman, a discoverer, an inventor, a pilot, a manufacturer, a
religious leader, etc.
A meaningful ambition is not
confined to one’s own desire or dream but also related to the needs of other people.
Ambitions are legitimate. To try to fulfill
one’s dreams is not undesirable provided they should be achievable as a proverb says:
Cut your coat according to your cloth. William Shakespeare (English poet-playwright
1564-1616) refers to it as “Vaulting
ambition , which overleaps itself.”
Look at the following quotes of
similar type:
*It is by
attempting to reach the top at a single leap, that so much misery is caused in
the world. ---- Anglo –American political writer William Cobbett (1766-1835).
**It is the
constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks
behind it. ------Italian philosopher Loucius Annaeus Seneca (Died Rome 65 AD).
***Ambition
is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are
never satisfied,---Niccolo Machiaveli, Italian diplomat, author, historian and
philosopher (1469-1527).
****Ambition
is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.---Sir John Denham, English
poet (1615-69).
*****Nothing
is too high for the daring of mortals ; they storm heaven itself in their
folly,-----The Roman poet Horace (65-BC---8
B.C.)
**********
G.R.Kanwal
6th February 2026
No comments:
Post a Comment