Greed Quotes, Sayings about greed - Page 2
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.
- Lau Tzu
You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.
- Vernon Howard
People are always looking for more and forget about what they already have.
Fraud is the daughter of greed.
- Jonathan Gash
For greed, all nature is too little.
- Seneca
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
- Mason Cooley
People are always looking for more and forget about what they already have.
A man can be cured of his lust, but a fool can never be cured of his greed.
A greedy person and a pauper are practically one and the same.
- Swiss Proverb
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
- Maya Angelou
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.
- Logan Pearsall
Greed usually comes from deadly sin impatience. Because we hate to wait for anything, we prefer to pursue several goals at the same time. Multitasking has really hit it off with mind setting.
- Sumesh Nair
People are never happy with what they have. They want what they had. Or what others have.
When you get little, you want more. When you get more, you desire even more. But when you lose it, you realize little was enough.
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
- Honoré de Balzac
Greed breeds envy which in turn breeds destruction.