A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
Allen Tate

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
George W. Bush

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
Bob Dylan

Big results require big ambitions.
Heraclitus

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.
James Weldon Johnson

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.
Bryant H. McGill

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
Bryant H. McGill

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.
Kimi Raikkonen

From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.
Louise Fletcher

I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to be friend to Arabs, because nowadays those who have ambitions and interests would not befriend Arab.
George Galloway

I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.
Paul Daniels

I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.
James W. Black

I have a few personal ambitions for the band.
John Deacon

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
Mandy Moore

I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.
Joseph P. Kennedy

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
Oliver Reed