Top 44 Being Greedy Quotes
#1. There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya Angelou
#2. When the world decides to stop being greedy ... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.
Jess Glynne
#3. You can never have enough trophies. If there were ten to be won a year I'd want to win them all! That's not being greedy, it's just a natural thing.
Thierry Henry
#6. Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.
Tami Hoag
#7. It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being 'greedy' by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings.
Julie Burchill
#8. Excuse me for being greedy, but I want freedom and good government.
David Brin
#9. I don't like the phrase having it all. It implies we're being greedy, like "have a second piece of pie."
Kirsten Gillibrand
#10. Being greedy for money is the surest way not to get it, but when one serves for the sake of service - for the satisfaction of doing that which one believes to be right - then money abundantly takes care of itself.
Henry Ford
#11. Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize that ridiculous Enron project in India.' ... After all, they're greedy businessmen and you're a selfless public servant.
Harry Browne
#12. The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion for me to realize it even more.
Jean Chretien
#13. The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.
Tom Peterson
#14. I still find it tough to be around girls because I always say the wrong thing. If a friend asks me if I look fat in something, I'll be honest and say 'Yeah' when she does.
Kelly Osbourne
#15. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
Darren Shan
#16. Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.
Mara Wilson
#17. When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.
Louis C.K.
#18. Two reeds drink from the same stream. One is hollow, the other is sugarcane. - MOROCCAN PROVERB
Tahir Shah
#20. People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.
Eva Le Gallienne
#21. In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
August Sander
#23. I'm tired of being crushed under the weight of greedy men who believe in nothing. I have to change that.
J-Ax
#24. The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.
Voltaire
#25. Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd
Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.
John Milton
#26. I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity.
Artie Shaw
#27. How many of us even know what our default state of being is? Check yours at random times; reset it to positive, grateful, disciplined or faithful. Don't ever let it idle on negative, greedy, lax or doubtful.
Toni Sorenson
#28. Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.
Idries Shah
#29. How could we even begin to disarm greed and envy? Perhaps by being much less greedy and envious ourselves; perhaps by resisting the temptation of letting our luxuries become needs; and perhaps by even scrutinising our needs to see if they cannot be simplified and reduced.
Ernst F. Schumacher
#30. It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs.
Tina Brown
#31. This man would rob them graves himself, being some way starved by life, bone greedy.
Peter Matthiessen
#32. I'm perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don't pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I'm actually being quite greedy, because what I'm doing is essentially saying, 'I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.'
Matt Ridley
#33. This isn't a negotiation. I want to make you cum, Lily. I am being very nice to you. It would be in your best interest to take my gift as it is and not be greedy.
Teresa Mummert
#34. All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.
Marilyn Manson
#35. Only elves and trolls had survived the coming of Man to the discworld: the elves because they were altogether too clever by half, and the trolley folk because they were at least as good as humans at being nasty, spiteful and greedy.
Terry Pratchett
#36. I grew up homeless, you know, lived in and out of U-Haul trucks and, you know, apartment houses, friends.
Donald Driver
#37. The body is in constant danger of being depleted by a greedy brain, but cannot afford to let the brain go hungry as that would rapidly lead to death.
Bill Bryson
#38. Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy.
Inbee Park
#39. I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.
Billy Joel
#40. He had been young once and limitless, and then somehow his life became a foregone conclusion. An almost was, not even a has been.
Noah Hawley
#41. Every human face is more enigmatic than the timeworn expression on the famous Sphinx out there in the sands of Egypt.
Dean Koontz
#42. The widow employed her woman's malice to devise a system of covert persecution.
Honore De Balzac
#43. We should have no more use or regard for money in any of its forms than we have for dust. Those who think it is worth more, or who are greedy for it, expose themselves to the danger of being deceived by the Devil.
Francis Of Assisi
#44. It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want. Not that all who perish from want absolutely die of hunger; though this calamity is of more frequent occurrence than is generally supposed.
Jean-Baptiste Say
