Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands - 1 Thessalonians 4:11

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. - Philippians 2:3

If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. - Luke 9:23

Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. - Matthew 16:24