Greediness Quotes

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  • Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.

    Andy Stanley (2006). “Taming the Monster”, Multnomah Pub
  • Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

  • Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

    Love   Greed   Comfort  
    "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.
  • He who is greedy is always in want.

    Money   Greed   Investing  
  • The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

  • Life is easy greediness adds complexity

    Life   Add   Easy  
  • Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make a choice - if the choice looks like a 'sacrifice' - you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness... the necessity of deciding between two things you want when you can't have both.

    Pain   Sacrifice   Two  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.241, Penguin
  • For greed, all nature is too little.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.

    Rain   Men   Yield  
  • There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

    Greed   Nausea   Lines  
  • None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness of the coming world.

    Wisdom   Islamic   Age  
  • Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

    Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.319, Macmillan
  • Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

    Effort   Greed   Needs  
    Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.121, Open Road Media
  • Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.

    Party   Men   Office  
    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.325
  • Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

    FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 31, 2012
  • God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.

  • Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

    John Donne (2013). “Love poems”, p.37, Lulu.com
  • Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.

    Children   Eye   Men  
  • I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing to their unfailing rude greediness and their indefatigable activity. With their hard-heartedness that they extend toward people of other faiths and races they are at the point of making themselves kings of the world. This people can thank its obstinacy that France will be Judized within fifty years. Already some wise Jews prophesy this frankly.

    Wise   Kings   Race  
  • There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

    Love   Life   Greed  
    Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”
  • It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

  • Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  • Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

    Desire   World   Treasure  
  • Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

    Greed   Mouths   Demon  
    Janwillem Van De Wetering (2003). “Just a Corpse at Twilight”, p.118, Soho Press
  • Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

    Karl Marx (2007). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.52, Courier Corporation
  • The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

    Life   Men   Average  
  • Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.

  • Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the merchant, like all other industrious men, seeks his benefit only in his talent, in virtue of freely arrived at agreements, and appealing to faith and the laws.

    Philosophy   Men   Law  
  • To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.

  • The point is that you can't be too greedy.

    Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.48, Ballantine Books
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