Quotes About Selfish Ambition

#1. The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

Anonymous

#3. 3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

Anonymous

#4. When a leader replaces the value of selfless service with selfish ambition they have officially regressed back into a boss.

Noel DeJesus

#5. His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and too vulnerable ever to be the cool and confident operator his brother was.

Jack Newfield

#6. 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

#7. Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

C.J. Mahaney

#8. Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.

William Jennings Bryan

#9. We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.

C.J. Mahaney

#10. America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn't create you to live for you. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to put aside your selfish ambition.

Rick Warren

#11. The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.

Criss Jami

#12. Trees have feelings too, and no one ever says 'hi' to them. Next time you're outside and see a tree, say 'hello'.

Daniel Johns

#13. A gynecologist is the dentist for the downstairs mouth.

Daniel Tosh

#14. It will be recorded that the dead in the first decade of the calamity died of our indifference.

Paul Monette

#15. Against legitimacy is arrayed usurpation; against modest,
single-minded, righteous, and brave resistance to encroachment
is arrayed boastful, double-tongued, selfish, and treacherous
ambition to possess. God defend the right!"
"God often defends the powerful.

Charlotte Bronte

#16. What do I know that this moment does not know? If I know it, the moment knows it as well. Everything is here and now. All we need is an earnest eye to see it.

Santosh Lamichhane

#17. don't think women have the right to a self. They are supposed to live for others. Qualities that are seen as normal and desirable in men - ambition, confidence, outspokenness - are perceived as selfish and aggressive in women, especially when they have children.

Katha Pollitt

#18. I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer was making me selfish - I was a mother with two children, and I needed a backup plan.

Rebecca Ferguson

#19. This is nothing more than a freaking temper tantrum with a body count, and I am done with it. Nobody else is dying for this.

Rachel Hawkins

#20. The great mass of human beings are not acutely selfish. After the age of about thirty they abandon individual ambition - in many cases, indeed, they almost abandon the sense of being individuals at all - and live chiefly for others, or are simply smothered under drudgery.

George Orwell

#21. Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels - and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are.

Criss Jami

#22. Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.

Tom Cotton

#23. Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.

William Clark

#24. The Christmas season is a gift in itself. It releases us from the priorities of ordinary time and gives us the right to party more and pray more and love more.

Joan D. Chittister

#25. As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

Jonathan Krohn