rome. john milton, stimulated always by his ambition that aimed at writing some “mighty lines” which england would unwillingly forget, had in due time secured his position as the second shakespeare in the history of english literature.
in the second place, ambition can bring one’s potentials to the full. ambition may well serve as a catalyst activating one’s dormant potentials. without ambition one’s potentials will remain slumbering like a dormant volcano. a case in point is ms zhang haidi, a chinese helen keller. it was her ambition to be a useful person has turned the almost paralyzed zhang haidi into a well-accomplished figure whose achievements would dwarf those of some normal people aim at the sun, though, at worst, they may probably land on the moon.
influential as it is upon us, however, ambition must be channeled in the right direction. if wrongly directed, one’s ambition may bring havoc on him and others. hitler, whose ambition was to conquer europe by whate