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Ambition is the "the persistent and generalized striving for success, attainment, and accomplishment."

Ambition has been viewed alternately as a virtue and a vice.

Definition
English dictionaries tend to describe ambition as a desire to attain to reach ends like success, power and wealth. In psychological literature, definitions of ambition have also related ambition to goals and plans for accomplishments.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2945976

As a personality trait
Psychologists. Some scholars have viewed ambition as an extension of conscientiousness ; others have seen it as an extension of extraversion. Still other researchers have