have ambition

Example Sentences

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No one can say they don’t have ambition, and it will be a wide open race.

From Salon • Dec. 30, 2025

"We are very ambitious and when you have ambition, you have to perform," Ten Hag said.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2024

"We understand people have ambition to continue to grow and develop... but its about transparency."

From Reuters • Aug. 10, 2023

I couldn’t have had any sense of awareness of a career or even how to have ambition.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2023

Let us have ambition enough to keep our simplicity or frugality, and our integrity, and transmit these virtues as the fairest of inheritances to our children.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail