Greed Quotes

958 Greed quotes by 688 unique authors

Greed may not be good, but it’s not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something… — Hiromu Arakawa
You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire… — Wallace D. Wattles
She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for… — George R. R. Martin
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed. — Thomas Harris
Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life.… — Czeslaw Milosz
Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer. — Joseph Sobran
I saw the horrible way that people could treat each other. That may be the saddest thing of all. I saw greed and anger and… — D. J. MacHale
...The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with… — Charlie Chaplin
It's a mystery to me We have a greed with which we have agreed You think you have to want more than you need Until… — Eddie Vedder
I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find until our souls… — Isaac Marion
There are no unique postures and times and limitations that restrict our access to God. My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian… — Ravi Zacharias
It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil. — Amish Tripathi
Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be… — Alan Watts
There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of… — Jodi Picoult
...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention… — Eleanor Roosevelt
There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge. — Ally Carter
Anyone can battle for pride, power, vanity, greed, or hate, but war should always be approached with an equal measure of wisdom and strength. It's… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
If you are angry you will share anger, if you are greedy you will share greed, if you are full of lust you will share… — Rajneesh
Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust. — Rajneesh
Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into humbleness. — Rajneesh
One cannot completely get rid of the six passions: lust, anger, greed, and the like. Therefore one should direct them to God. If you must… — Ramakrishna
Become more watchful and anger will be less and greed will be less and jealousy will be less. — Rajneesh
Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before you were born,… — Rajneesh
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. — Dudley Field Malone
The twin killers of success are impatience and greed. — Jim Rohn

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