Ambition

Ambition: an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction and the willingness to strive for its attainment.

Why it exists:

• Life does not hand you everything you want, you have to work towards them. This is ambition.
• Without it, nothing is achieved.
• The things we strive for create purpose in our individual lives.
• It is not only to dream about achieving a goal, but it is the amount of drive that one has in themselves to actually take action in their journey towards it.

Ways to get it:

• To be passionate in achieving a dream, or goal.
• To have a strong drive within yourself to take action in achieving this goal.

Ways to maintain it:

• Continue taking action steps towards your dream.
• Push yourself forward to give yourself motivation and determination.
• Always keep focussed on what you want to achieve.

Ways one would use it:

• It is used to achieve a certain desire.
• It gives one a greater, more positive perspective on life's possibilities, opening doors that may have not been seen prior to having a strong sense of ambition.

Ways one could lose it:

• Discouragement through failure, obstacles, or stress.
• Completely giving up.
• Discovering something else that they are more passionate about; the ambition for the old desire has now disappeared.

How it affects people:

• It makes people strive for something.
• It gives people purpose and determination in life.
• Witnessing another's ambition can inspire or influence your own.

Other things about it:

• Without the ambition of the people, the world would never change.
• The more you have, the more that you can achieve.
• Anything that you want to achieve, you need ambition to accomplish it.
• Ambition creates reality in life, instead of looking at goals/dreams from a distance.
• It helps one recognize what is important to themselves in their life.

Ambition and the other terms:  the word ambition greatly relates to the other terms in that they all have to relate with people, and the way that we naturally are. Ambition is natural within humanity. Another direct connection to ambition is the term power, in which with no ambition in one,  the power that comes with an achieved desire will not exist. The final three words: integrity, loyalty, and self-worth, are characteristics of ambition because they shape one's self and and show the type of drive within them.