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Ambition: To What Extent Is Best? Essay

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“Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds” - Ambition is the start of a journey that will help one achieve success in life. Having a desire to attain something requires strong ambition; it is an essential quality for human kind, but to some extent. It helps to reach a significant goal in life, but at the same time becoming too ambitious to obtain a desire is harmful. Basically, just like a coin has two sides, ambition also has two sides; optimistic side and a pessimistic side.
Ambition is good and it will benefit the one with a particular ambition, since having an ambition is really optimistic. For example, from the famous play Macbeth – By Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth has a desire of her husband wanting to be the new …show more content…

Just like I have an ambition, my parents had an ambition too; there ambition was to leave everything back in their home country and move to a better country for a better future. Personally, I think this is a really big ambition because my parents left everything for my sake; my better future’s sake. Even though they didn’t harm anyone else for this ambition, but they did harm themselves since it is not easy to leave your loved ones and move over the oceans for a whole new life. Basically, ambitions are made to benefit people in one way or another, the only thing that matters is to choose the right one.
It is a responsibility to have a strong and successful ambition; however it should be to some extent. If an ambition is hurting someone then it should be considered an ambition since there is not point of reaching a goal by hurting others because that would be cheating. Just like in the play “Macbeth – By Shakespeare” Lady Macbeth had a very considerable ambition, but too obtain that ambition she had to harm others, and as result of that she harmed herself at the end. That is having an ambition for harming instead of getting benefit from it. In addition, the ambition that my parents had was acceptable and fair, since they weren’t hurting anyone else to achieve it. Just like we need to drink water every day, but too some extent, similarly it is significant to have an ambition but too some

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