English-Czech translations for ambition

  • ctižádostKde stanovíme limit, míru našich ctižádostí? Where do we set the limit, the measure of our ambitions? Předvedli jste zde ctižádost a my si toho vážíme. You have demonstrated ambition here and that is a precious thing to us. Co se týče naší skupiny, myslíme si, že tato zpráva dodává evropskému zemědělství ctižádost. As far as our group is concerned, this report conveys an ambition for European agriculture.
  • ambiceVaše ambice jsou i našimi ambicemi. Your ambition is our ambition. "Moudrého člověka vyléčí z ambicí ambice samotné." 'A wise man cures ambition with ambition itself'. Tyto ambice bychom měli dále podporovat. We should be driving forward that ambition.

Definition of ambition

  • Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people
  • An object of an ardent desire
  • A desire, as in , for another person to achieve these things
  • The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing
  • To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet

Examples

  • My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition
  • My ambition is to own a helicopter
  • Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. — Trumbull

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