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Ambitious

adjective

Having a strong desire for success or achievement.

Requiring full use of your abilities or resources. Synonym: challenging. "Performed the most challenging task without a mistake"

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... McDuffie: "We have lived under the present order of things for fifty years, and can continue to live under it for one thousand years to come, if the people of the South are but content to stand upon their rights as guaranteed in the Constitution, and not work confusion by listening to ambitious politicians: by taking as much pains to preserve a good understanding with our Northern brethren, the vast majority of whom are inclined to respect ...

— Robert Toombs - Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage • Pleasant A. Stovall

... and all the ambitious views which it opened, to each of the Miss Berrys successively, but they refused to bear his name, though they still cheered his solitude: and, strange to say, two of the most admired and beloved women of their time ...

— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 2 • Grace & Philip Wharton

... abundant for the history of American industry in the last fifty years. They exist largely in the form of official documents. Any one ambitious of studying this subject in great detail should consult, first of all, the catalogs issued by that very valuable institution, the Government Printing Office. The Bureau of Corporations has published elaborate reports on such industries as petroleum ...

— The Age of Big Business - Volume 39 in The Chronicles of America Series • Burton J. Hendrick

... recorded indicate very clearly the position of our personages. Fearing to lose both the well-beloved cat and the advantages she was ambitious to obtain, Mother Michel redoubled her ...

— The Story of a Cat • mile Gigault de La Bdollire

... her beautiful bright eyes filled with tears. She took leave of her most cherished and ambitious dream—bade farewell to her future of ...

— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach

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