ambition

Universal Words doing sth( 1 [C] something that you want to do or achieve very much: She never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer. * His burning ambition was to study medicine. * It had been her lifelong ambition. * political / literary / sporting ambitions 2 [U] the desire or determination to be successful, rich, powerful, etc: motivated by personal ambition * She was intelligent but suffered from a lack of ambition.