SMK TAMAN FOREST HEIGHTS

Prepared by: Pn Hjh Zalinah Bt Ibrahim

THE PUBLIC SPEAKING COMPOSITION SCRIPT
AMBITION
Ambition is an emotion, unique to mankind. It is a more advanced form of desire
or passion and unlike other emotions, like love and sorrow, or feelings like hunger and thirst
which create similar impact in everyone; ambition varies from person to person. Therefore, while
food can satisfy ones hunger, ambition may fulfill ones satisfaction.
A very good morning to the honorable judges, teachers, and friends. The title of
my speech today is Ambition.
Ambition is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as a strong desire and
determination to do or to achieve something. It is clearly related to the lifestyles of each period.
If an ambition set in the past was to become a lawyer or a teacher, it is now a stock broker or a
software expert that most people wish to be. The much variety in ambitions is geared by a
common desire for a respectable social status, as well as for security and stability in life.
The nature of ambitions changes not only from person to person, but from time to
time, in the same person. If, as a child, our wish was to become a teacher or a pilot, in later life it
may be to become a doctor or an actor. In childhood, since our minds and thoughts are immature,
they are unable to help us decide about our future properly.
Ladies and gentlemen,
We should start preparations to realize our ambitions as early in life, as possible.
We should know our abilities and drawbacks well enough to start planning our future. Our
attitudes and attributes during that period can indicate with fair accuracy what we shall be in
future. While the interest in the fine arts may suggest a career in painting, a talent to make simple
mechanical devices may indicate a career in engineering.
However, it is not always will early talent blossoms in the future. Quite often,
early ambition fizzles out. Talent and ability cannot ensure success. They can lead to success
only if they are supported by hard work and optimism.
Therefore, hard work and determination are keys to nurture talents. Every opportunity
that helps develop our potential should be made use of, as should those that will enable us to test
our attributes. Realising ambitions should be a continuing process regardless challenges one may

face from time to time. We must prepare ourselves to refine and reform our plans to suit the
situations that we face, as we move ahead with time.
Working hard on ambitions should not put us under undue pressure. We should have a
balanced view of the future to avoid disappointments that may be caused by adverse situations.
However, if we have suitably flexible and versatile mentality, we can modify our ambitions
should such a need arise.
As ambitions help us acquaint ourselves with our abilities, they add to our personality
development. They will fine tune our talents and make them productive. However, ambitions
should be within bounds. They should be reasonable and realizable. There is no point in a blind
mans aspiration to become a pilot. If we are in anyway ineligible to pursue our ambition, it is
better that we abandon it or choose another that may be suitable, rather than compensate our
ineligibility with malpractice.
Ambition should always be individually inspired. They should not be influenced by the
opinion or compulsion by others. Pressure from others is an important reason for the failure of
most ambitions.
Ambition is good or bad according to the way in which it affects others. Our ambitions,
while fulfilling our desires, should not act against the interests of society. They should
complement the aspirations of society, in a manner that will fetch appreciation and acclaim.
Ladies and gentlemen, a man without any ambition is a boat without the sails. It can drift
in any direction and at the end of the day may find life a fruitless and frustrated nothingness. To
travel hopefully is better than to arrive. If one has arrived, the joy of the journey is over.
With that, I thank you.