Quotes About Ambition And Evil

#1. I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Abraham Lincoln

#2. Money was evil, beauty vain, and both were transitory. Ambition was pride, desire for gain was avarice, desire of the flesh was lust, desire for honor, even for knowledge and beauty, was vainglory. Insofar as these diverted man from seeking the life of the spirit, they were sinful.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#3. Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

George MacDonald

#4. Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously-and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.

George W. Bush

#5. Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.

John Connolly

#6. A thick, intense fog was rolling in from the ocean, which created long, strange shadows to form like creatures of their own kind.

Keira D. Skye

#7. Nippers was a whiskered, sallow, and, upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man of about five and twenty. I always deemed him the victim of two evil powers - ambition and indigestion.

Herman Melville

#8. But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such 'wisdom' does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice" (James 3:14

Craig Groeschel

#9. There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

Seneca The Younger

#10. Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

Francesco Guicciardini

#11. It was such a feeling of developing your inner self to the people who liked to dig deeper and deeper until you cannot fathom the deepest evil in you.

Fernando Lachica

#12. One inconvenience ... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks.

Joshua Reynolds

#13. He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour .

Andrew Dickson White

#14. If America gave anybody anything it is ambition. Bad things would come out of it because some guys are in a hurry, but that doesn't mean they're evil or anything, it just means they fall into bad grace somehow.

Jack Kirby

#15. The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

Luc De Clapiers

#16. I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.

Tim Heidecker

#17. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

Iris Murdoch

#18. It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

Seneca The Younger

#19. The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Luc De Clapiers

#20. Superior thoughts are the key to a superior life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. The greater your ambition for the health of the world, the more sinister, diabolical, complex, and threatening the resistance you will meet.

Steven Franssen

#22. My combat action has commenced ... I've pissed my pants, but only a little.

Anthony Swofford

#23. Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

#24. It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

Abba Eban

#25. At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#26. It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared to that, the victims of private crimes are almost negligible.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#27. I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.

Norbert Leo Butz

#28. A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.

Seneca The Younger

#29. Let's put it this way: I did not get in trouble every time I drank, but every time I got in trouble, I'd been drinking.

Dave Mustaine