Difference between Ambition and Drive

What is the difference between Ambition and Drive?

Ambition as a noun is an eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people. while Drive as a noun is self-motivation; ability coupled with ambition.

Ambition

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people. A desire, as in (1), for another person to achieve these things. The purported pathway to a chosen career. A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal. A four-player card game of tricks played mainly in North America, Europe, and Japan. [http://www.pagat.com/invented/ambition.html]

Drive

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Self-motivation; ability coupled with ambition.A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use.A trip made in a motor vehicle.A driveway.A type of public roadway.Desire or interest.An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive.A stroke made with a driver.A ball struck in a flat trajectory.A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To herd (animals) in a particular direction.To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.To cause animals to flee out of.To move (something) by hitting it with great force.To cause (a mechanism) to operate.To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).To motivate; to provide an incentive for.To compel (to do something).To cause to become.To hit the ball with a drive.To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.

We hope you now know whether to use Ambition or Drive in your sentence.

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