ambitions
Dreams of success
Ambitions are strong desires for achievement—goals pursued with determination and drive.
The word often implies wanting success, power, or recognition: She had political ambitions from an early age.
Ambitions can be specific (his ambitions for the company) or general (a young man with ambitions).
The word carries both positive connotations of drive and negative ones of excessive striving.
Involuntary sleep visions
- goalsIntended end results
- hopesPositive expectations held
- desiresStrong wants or cravings
- yearningsIntense, sustained desires
longings · aims · objectives · wishes · pursuits · endeavors · quests · intentions
Ability to anticipate futures
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- innovationCreating something original
- dreamsInvoluntary sleep visions
- idealsStandards of perfection
planning · strategy · blueprint · outlook · perspective · scope · projection · envisioning
Firmness of purpose
- motivationImpetus toward a goal
- perseveranceSustained resolve despite obstacles
- tenacityPersistent grip or resolve
- gritDetermination or abrasive particles
willpower · persistence · resilience · initiative · dedication · commitment · focus · resolve
Accomplished goal or deed
- accomplishmentSuccessful completion of aim
- triumphResounding, celebrated victory
- advancementForward movement or promotion
- progressMovement toward improvement
recognition · prestige · status · prosperity · fame · glory · distinction · breakthrough
Ruinous excessive confidence
- greedExcessive desire for wealth
- ruthlessnessLack of compassion or mercy
- cutthroatViciously competitive or murderous
- MachiavellianRuthlessly manipulative in politics
scheming · climbing · power-hungry · vaulting · overambition · unscrupulous · empire-building · megalomania
dreams
Involuntary sleep visions
yearnings · longings · aims · objectives · wishes · pursuits · endeavors · quests · intentions · cravings
foresight
Ability to anticipate futures
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- innovationCreating something original
- dreamsInvoluntary sleep visions
ideals · planning · strategy · blueprint · outlook · perspective · scope · projection · envisioning · conceptualization
determination
Firmness of purpose
- motivationImpetus toward a goal
- perseveranceSustained resolve despite obstacles
- tenacityPersistent grip or resolve
grit · willpower · persistence · resilience · initiative · dedication · commitment · focus · resolve · hustle
achievement
Accomplished goal or deed
- accomplishmentSuccessful completion of aim
- triumphResounding, celebrated victory
- advancementForward movement or promotion
progress · recognition · prestige · status · prosperity · fame · glory · distinction · breakthrough · promotion
hubris
Ruinous excessive confidence
- greedExcessive desire for wealth
- ruthlessnessLack of compassion or mercy
- cutthroatViciously competitive or murderous
Machiavellian · scheming · climbing · power-hungry · vaulting · overambition · unscrupulous · empire-building · megalomania
- identityidentity, personal identity, self, selfhood, self-expression
- goalsgoals, goal, aims, objective, objectives
- intentionsgoals, aims, I will, purposes, I want
- personalself, privacy, personal space, identity, name
- personal concernspriorities, values, goals, beliefs, needs
- self-conceptself-image, self-esteem, self-perception, self-awareness, self-identity
ambitionsapathy
Absence of feeling
apathies · indifference · complacency · lethargy · lethargies
ambitionscontentment
Peaceful satisfaction with circumstances
satisfaction · complacence · acceptance · resignation · contentedness
ambitionshumility
Freedom from arrogance
modesty · meekness · unassumingness · diffidence · self-effacement
- imperial ambitionsDesire for empire-building
- lack of ambitionAbsence of drive
- be ambitiousDesire significant achievement
- human ambitionDrive to achieve more
- artistic ambitionDrive toward aesthetic excellence
- colonial ambitionsDrive to conquer territories
ambition, ambitious, unambitious, ambitiously, ambitionless, overambitious