Greediness Quotes

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

Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after the least we miss the greatest.

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

To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.

God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.

He who is greedy is always in want.

We risk all in being too greedy.

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

For greed, all nature is too little.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

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

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.

Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims.

Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

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.

Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.

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.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Life is easy greediness adds complexity

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.

There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

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

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.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

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.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

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

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

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

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.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

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.

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.

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.