Is ambition necessary in life? What if I dont have any big aim in life?

Question

I believe that happiness is where there is no ambition. Your views please.

Answer 1

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

— Charles Kingsley



Enthusiasm moves the world.

— Arthur James Balfour



Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson. (1803-1882).



Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

— Confucius



Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

— Heraclitus, Greek philosopher (500 BCE)



If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

— Bruce Barton



Nothing great was ever achieved without great enthusiasm

— Ralph Waldo Emerson



Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

— Albert Einstein



Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

— Winston Churchill



'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox



Nothing gives one person so much of an advantage over another as to remain unruffled in all circumstances.

— Thomas Jefferson

Answer 2

Newton's third law states that "Every Action has an equal and opposite reaction" So ambition is the action which spurs you and eggs you along this path called life. It brings in desires to better your life and along with it you achieve happiness when everything falls in your way. If things go awry , you are drowned in sorrow. Man, we are not that gyaanis to say we have no ambition. Even the Gitaa says, your Karma is very important. So as a Grihasta, you should have an ambition. If there were no ambitions, you would not be using a computer and signing into Yahoo Answers!!! So strive and set goals for yourself.

Answer 3

Great question.... Star!!



Ambition is a function of ego and environmental possibilities. If one does not have any big ambition, indeed there would be no scope for any major disappointment either.



However, in order to be happy without ambition, one has to strike at the root where it is born and that is ego. Therefore, unless ego can be kept in check, it would make one unhappy and restless in the absence of ambition..... it would make one feel as though one is wasting the life without significant achievements. The right formula thus may be to keep ego in check and thereby avoid having too high aims in life.

Answer 4

Ambition is ambition. Yours may be HUGE and may be small but it is still ambition.

Having a BIG aim in life is just something that only a FEW people have. Not everyone has some great "KNOWING" from early youth that drives them to see it and attain it at all costs.



Just deciding that your ambition is to just hang and see what all happens...then that is fine. It is still ambition and it is necessary to have one. You have to have an underlying even subconscious "plan" in order to make your movements in life. So, I am calling this "plan" ambition.

Happiness is being "fine" where you are doing what you're doing. Even if it is not some great high and mighty achievement it is still necessary to have YOUR personal ambition directing you in life.

Answer 5

I think at some point in your life you will not have any ambition, but as the years progress you will develop a reason to live, and some type of ambition whether its a a small or large scale.....ambitious doesnt necessary mean that your trying to save the world, it could be that you may have a future goal to earn big, or have money in your account, or to find happiness with family or friends etc etc



without some type of ambition, life seems too dull.........everyone is ambitious at some point, whether its small or large scale.

Answer 6

If you don't have a big aim in life, you'll never hit anything.

Which is ok, it sounds, for you. I say if you're happy, why mess with it?



As far as happiness = no ambition, that might be true for some. I think ambition is needed for progress and evolution.

Answer 7

My primary ambition is to be happy and at peace in my life. I don't make a lot of money, but all my needs are taken care of, my children are happy and healthy, I have a job I love, and true friends. I sometimes wish I had a bit more money, but is enough really ever enough? One thing I have found though is in looking for a mate, I do not do well with overly ambitious A type personalities. I feel inferior and you might think that would spur me on to get ambitious., but hey, I'm happy, so why mess with success?

Answer 8

Yes, i think this cause if you don't have any ambition or goal in life then what is there to do in life. You don't have a big aim but you do have some type of goal you want to reach like graduating from college. You can't just not have any goal. You must do have some type of goal.

Answer 9

I am the complete opposite of you, as I am an extremely ambitious person. My goals in life have made it possible to not only achieve , but be successful. If I am not working towards something in life- I don't feel that "inner drive" that I feel is necessary in life. I continually set new goals for myself once my old ones are achieved. I also tend to believe that in some ways ambition coincides with occupation. I am a special educator. Therefore, I need to be ambitious - if not for myself- for my students. I also believe that there are aspects of a person's individual life that makes them ambitious through personal experiences. You may not be an ambitiuos person right now, but something in life could happen that you are totally "driven" by. It could be today, next year, or even twenty years from now, but something will happen in your life that drives you to be ambitious!

Answer 10

Ambition..what is it? It is just a product of the 'future', which has never arrived yet. Time is the greatest conspirator. It creates something called 'thoughts' in you. Thoughts are based out of your past, your experiences, your 'bundle of memories'. There is no contributions from 'you' as a person who wants to know the ambitions. Thoughts are influenced by your nearer, dearer who, once upon a time probably shared their ambitions with you. Thoughts have no sense, it cannot guide you, it inflicts pain and pleasure together. My ambition is this or that; how does it make any difference to your quality of living now. You are sitting under a tree in your college campus or in a park thinking about your ambitions. Birds are whistling, flowers are spreading the fragnance. You have taken no notice to them as you have taken your 'present' for granted. 'Present' is of no importance to you because you do not know how to derive joy from your present. You rather try to look into your future trying to derive pleasure out of it. In thoughts there is no action and there is no failure. So you take a shortest route to pleasure. You want to be happy if I share with you your ambitions. You are not threatened, you get pleasure. But pleasure always brings with it the 'pain' which you want to avoid. I need not thus indulge in thinking of future. Stay and enjoy your present. Enjoyment is devoid of pattern, knowledge but pleasure has stored pattern...your thoughts have created it.

Answer 11

Most have some, in your case it is to leave out happy simple life with minimum hassles. This is not easy to do either, you can have lots of pressure from your surrounding and people around you.



Ambition means Lofty Goals most just dream about it and some achieve it and some end up in jail after achieving them as they have done it by hook or a crook, as the saying goes..

Answer 12

Not necessary to have happiness. As far as happiness is concerned one can be happy without ambition, one only has to be concerned about his immediate duty and to have (ambition !!) to mind his own business. Problem comes only when people starts poking into others' business.

Without bothering others about their job, one has enough of his own to keep one occupied for a lifetime.

Answer 13

I think the "Big Ambition" thing is overrated. A person can be quite happy even if they don't buy into the whole "Gotta have a house, two cars, two kids, big career with big money" thing.



You find what makes you happy and comfortable and go with that.

Answer 14

--AMBITION CAN be of benefit if properly controlled, otherwise like importance & power it can become a chimera(many headed monster!

--"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind"(A PERSONAL RECORD:PREFACE)

--THE PROBLEM being that most great ambitions(if not all, in my opinion) have developed on mankinds miseries--MAN CANNOT properly control more than personal and small ambitions, that are held at bay!

--AS MUCH of a god with goodness, one wants to be , he never succeeds with power over humans!

Answer 15

You believe rightly. Ambitions simply give grief, just like a frustrated love case.

Answer 16

Some have it....some don't. No big deal either way. Just accept that if you don't have it, you won't have much in the way of material possessions. If you're cool with that, (which you should be), leave the ambition to the type A's.

Answer 17

no, not to worry. Life is not running according to our aim. you believe that happiness is where there is no ambition, I agree with it.

Answer 18

Ambition is a mental sickness.

Answer 19

Yes, ambition is not necessary in life, but we must do our duty, actions, and not look for the fruits of the actions, and renounce the fruit of actions for true happiness.

Answer 20

Happiness may coexist with no ambition for you and others but would bring despair to many others.

Answer 21

Life is simple, you hit what you aim at.



As long as you are happy with having nothing, keep shooting for it.

Answer 22

Nothing in life is necessary for any one indivual. You can lack ambtion to even keep yourself fed and the universe will continue to spin around as usual.

Answer 23

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no, when money in ones life is not a problem, if not, the homeless shelters are filled to capacity and the soup line has shorten their ours - good luck!

Answer 24

no aims are big. our ego and requirements make them big, bigger and the biggest. without ambition - one can survive, but i have a doubt - wether it will have FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 25

You might still be young, so cool down you will have those and believe me you will fight harder to reach that big aim.

IF BIG AIM TO YOU MEAN THE SAME TO ME THOUGH.

Answer 26

I think it depends on the person and what they want out of life.

Answer 27

If that's what you believe, look there first. If you don't find it there, look elsewhere.

Answer 28

Me thinks you are already dead.

Answer 29

when you stop dreaming, you start dying