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Ambition is the "the persistent and generalized striving for success, attainment, and accomplishment."^[1]

Ambition has been viewed alternately as a virtue and a vice.^[1]^[2]

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

In the workplace

As a personality trait

Psychologists . Some scholars have viewed ambition as an extension of conscientiousness^[3]; others have seen it as an extension of extraversion. Still other researchers have

^ ^a ^b Judge, Timothy A.; Kammeyer-Mueller, John D. (2012-07). "On the value of aiming high: the causes and consequences of ambition". The Journal of Applied Psychology. 97 (4): 758–775. doi:10.1037/a0028084. ISSN 1939-1854. PMID 22545622. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ Pettigrove, Glen (February 1, 2007). "Ambitions". Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 10 (1): 53–68. doi:10.1007/s10677-006-9044-4. ISSN 1572-8447.
^ Jackson, Douglas N.; Paunonen, Sampo V.; Fraboni, Maryann; Goffin, Richard D. (January 1, 1996). "A five-factor versus six-factor model of personality structure". Personality and Individual Differences. 20 (1): 33–45. doi:10.1016/0191-8869(95)00143-T. ISSN 0191-8869.

[:0-1] Judge, Timothy A.; Kammeyer-Mueller, John D. (2012-07). "On the value of aiming high: the causes and consequences of ambition". The Journal of Applied Psychology. 97 (4): 758–775. doi:10.1037/a0028084. ISSN 1939-1854. PMID 22545622. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

[2] Pettigrove, Glen (February 1, 2007). "Ambitions". Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 10 (1): 53–68. doi:10.1007/s10677-006-9044-4. ISSN 1572-8447.

[3] Jackson, Douglas N.; Paunonen, Sampo V.; Fraboni, Maryann; Goffin, Richard D. (January 1, 1996). "A five-factor versus six-factor model of personality structure". Personality and Individual Differences. 20 (1): 33–45. doi:10.1016/0191-8869(95)00143-T. ISSN 0191-8869.

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