Do we really want it?

Ambition is not merely a "desire and determination to achieve success" as the dictionary claims.

The level of someone's ambition can be measured by the level of sacrifices he/she is ready to make to achieve success. Ambition is not a desire, it's action. It's basically staying home to revise when all your friends are going out, it's saying "no" to a night out with your friends in order to prepare for that interview.

Let's bear that in mind next time we say we want something - do we truly want it? Have we done everything we could to succeed? 
If not, either consider a. if we really want it b. if we should work more for it!