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  • Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

    Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.105, Open Road Media
  • A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.

  • Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

    Life   Sad   Beautiful  
    Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde
  • Timothy's great value was that he was always willing to go anywhere; and in his hands a message was as safe as if Paul had delivered it himself. Others might be consumed with selfish ambition; but Timothy's one desire was to serve Paul and Jesus Christ. He is the patron saint of all those who are quite content with the second place, so long as they can serve.

    WILLIAM BARCLAY “THE LETTER TO THE PHILIPPIANS”, ktab INC.
  • 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.

    Selfish   Ambition   Men  
    Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”
  • 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 (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.27, Multnomah
  • 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 (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”
  • 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.

    Life   Jesus   Selfish  
  • 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 (1969). “Robert Kennedy: a memoir”
  • We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.

    C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.31, Multnomah
  • Too many people want the fruit of Paul's ministry without paying the price that Paul paid. He died. He died to everything. He died daily He was crucified with Christ ... I challenge you to pray this prayer: 'Lord, be ruthless with me in revealing my selfish ambition and my lack of willingness to die to myself.' I guarantee that He will answer your prayer - and quickly.

  • Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.

    Art   Selfish   Book  
    Saint Augustine (2010). “The Confessions”, p.198, New City Press
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