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Ambition – A Key to Success

Everyone requires a booster to succeed in life. The only beat to the influences of the outer world is Ambition - A strong desire for success. A formidable force which makes one believe that one needs what one usually desires is ‘ambition’.

Ambition is a mind-set that is really more of an entity, sitting on one’s shoulder, relentlessly screaming “further, further”. It’s an asset that sculpt rises the one to be zealous, ‘ambition has been the backbone of every success story’! Ambition is a passion that never fails and will never let fail it. Ambition is the best quality that a person can have, until the ribbon of chasing a dream is crossed. Ambition is what drives us to reach for the things in life important to us. Whether it is our career, the life we live or our family - the ambition to have the things we want, will push us to success.
  
No one is born with the ambition that makes one obsessed with goals and dreams in life. The ambition in a person develops with occurrence of certain circumstances. We may spend our whole life striving for a dream or goal that we have. We even work harder and harder but never focus on the missing link – Ambition. It blinds the mind and helps in chasing the dream. Ambition has the capacity to change us in a whole new person until we get obsessed and poisoned with it.
The impact of ambition behind the success can be studied from the lives of many great personalities. Leaders like Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Disney Walt, Dalai Lama, Albert Einstein, Indira Gandhi are some of the names, who has consistently followed their dreams and goals, until their last breath and some are still following the path less traveled. Recalling Swami Vivekanand’s words, “Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached”, directly points towards the consistency of the efforts to fulfill the ambition.
  

Ambition in other words is the motive force needed to propel all of us to work towards our desired cherishing goals. It is the dynamic inner force that has led people from all walks of life to cleave to a new path and set a new vision. Ambition is the ultimate wonder of the world! Ambition is the source of all that is good. It has power to create wonders overnight. Ambition is the winner and loser of every game and not the player!