Quotes About Greediness

#1. The most chronic heart disease is caused by having greediness in your heart. Go for check ups regularly and learn how to swallow those lumpy pills of generousity. Be kind and be healthy

Israelmore Ayivor

#2. In his greediness, he counts all that he has clutched as nothing in comparison with what is beyond his grasp, and loses all pleasure in his actual possessions by longing after what he has not, yet covets.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#3. Unless it is cured sometimes greediness grows. Where it finally stops, alas, nobody knows.

Bill Peet

#4. 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.

Zoroaster

#5. Life is easy greediness adds complexity

John Simm

#6. 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.

Sufyan Al-Thawri

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

Gautama Buddha

#8. 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.

Zeno Of Elea

#9. The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears
but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.

Samuel Butler

#10. 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.

Henri Nouwen

#11. A life of conflict and greediness causes a person to suffer from the rheumatism of sadness.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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

Linda Dillow

#13. Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach.

James Lind

#14. The wonder of life is in the miracle of life. There is spectacle, there is awe and there is incredulity. The blunder of life is in the greediness of Man from Abel and Cain to the City of Sodom and concurrently to the conflict in the Gaza Strip.

Anthony Pan

#15. 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.

Uthman Ibn Affan

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

Thomas Sprat

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

John Donne

#18. 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.

Thomas Jefferson

#19. I've got enough money in my life to retire now and do nothing. But I've got a duty and obligation to see if we can create more jobs in this state, and the government's got an obligation to approve projects and to assess them for the benefit of the people of Queensland.

Clive Palmer

#20. It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#21. Break free from the chains which shackle each soul through the binding links of fear, greed and indifference?

Bryant McGill

#22. Greed is bad because it's like unassimilated food in our system. If we eat more than our body requires, it will lead us to indigestion.

Hina Hashmi

#23. By the time I had gotten off the phone, I knew that I was going after Anna. My gut told me that she wasn't just a story. And besides, I wanted to see her, dressed in blood.

Kendare Blake

#24. Beware of those who are always hungry, for they will feed you to the wolves just to get paid.

Suzy Kassem

#25. When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.

Mae West

#26. And greed will breed harshness and cruelty.
And wealth is a maze to confuse.
Once a person is warm and well-suppered,
how much of such wealth can they use?

Mitton Tony

#27. We want too much but enjoy too little.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.

Rabindranath Tagore

#29. I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission ... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

Kenzo Tange

#30. Beware of leaders who prefer controlling 100 % of nothing over sharing a fortune.

Julion Okram

#31. Much wants more and loses all.

Aesop

#32. Greedy people are never satisfied that they have enough. They're like sharks that spend their entire life hunting and consuming. All the oceans in the world can't satisfy these eating machines.

Frank Sonnenberg

#33. I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that.

Joe Fafard

#34. I reck'n I knows what I knows.

Mark Twain

#35. Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#36. I've got more energy now than when I was younger because I know exactly what I want to do.

George Balanchine

#37. The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.

Keith Fullerton Whitman

#38. The source of evil is desire, greed, and anger.

Aleksandra Layland