Quotes About Ambition And Greed

#1. Distraught with the comprehension of his demise, a shovel stood dormant, in the ditch of her own digging. Now sheltered from the glare of greed and ambition, were the distasteful thoughts sprinkled in fool's gold.

Don Swann II

#2. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

Anthony De Mello

#3. I'ts better with the right hand than with the wrong girl

Jorgen Willumsen

#4. I make no pretensions to 'objectivity,' a fraudulent concept in an era of industrialized and politicized science in which intellectual mercenaries too often serve power and greed, the ambitions of competing nation-states, or the requirements of commerce.

Hazel Henderson

#5. Ambition is greed without makeup.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#6. The truth has value.

Terry Goodkind

#7. Only when the brain has cleansed itself of its conditioning, greed, envy, ambition, then only it can comprehend that which is complete. Love is this completeness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#8. People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

Bob Dylan

#9. The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.

Habeeb Akande

#10. I don't know why I feel so safe with you. I shouldn't let my guard down so much. There's something about you, Jameson. - Melody Roland

Nikki Lynn Barrett

#11. In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

Joseph Joubert

#12. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very skin. Quirrell, full of hatred, greed, and ambition,

J.K. Rowling

#13. Ambition' is 'greed' rebranded.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.

Gerald M. Loeb

#15. It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

Henry Bromell

#16. Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the plants will.

Brian L. Weiss

#17. I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.

Douglas Coupland

#18. IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

Tim Berners-Lee

#19. In 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' after Nicolas Cage tells his fiancee that he's given her away to pay for his gambling debts, she gets into a tizzy as if she were a 6-year-old. I couldn't believe it.

Allison Anders

#20. We also now have evidence for several other black holes in systems like Cygnus X-l in our galaxy and in two neighboring galaxies called the Magellanic Clouds. The

Stephen Hawking

#21. All too often those who extol most loudly the virtues of selflessness turn out to be motivated by greed and ambition.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#22. Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

Charles Ranlett Flint

#23. Nothing can take the sting out of the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

Billy Crystal

#24. The best is the enemy of good.

Voltaire

#25. We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact."
"And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more.

John Le Carre

#26. Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#27. She's a mystery, a cipher, something nearly extinct these days: a person not controlled by ambition or greed or a crass need for attention, but by a desire to experience life completely and to make life a little easier for the people around her

Rebecca Miller

#28. I love you so badly I could get lost in it and never find my way back out.

Tessa Bailey

#29. For every summons to a shining city on the hill or a promise of change we can believe in, we are presented with hundreds of examples of mudslinging and appeals to mob mentality. Rudeness is recast as honesty, greed is presented as ambition, and lines in the sand blur and move.

Nikki Stern

#30. Fantasies are the stories in which the soul becomes the lead

Rusti Fae

#31. Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.

Jim Rohn

#32. The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

Thucydides

#33. Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale

Kevin Dutton

#34. Beware of opportunities that are inspired by inordinate ambition or greed and not God-inspired. They are road blocks and distractions on your way to godly fulfillments

Ikechukwu Joseph