Greed Quotes

958 Greed quotes by 688 unique authors

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we… — Unknown Author
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of… — Benjamin Graham
Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your possessiveness, it burns… — Rajneesh
Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger, it may be… — Rajneesh
We are identified with the ego, and with the ego there are many things: anger and hatred and jealousy and possessiveness and greed - the… — Rajneesh
Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss. — H. P. Blavatsky
If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another. — Mahatma Gandhi
If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we… — Pope John Paul II
Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor… — Thomas Merton
I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving… — Sheryl Crow
Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds — Paul Valery
Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest… — Margaret Atwood
Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction. — Shinjo Ito
If you are extremely generous, greed will run away. — Nirmala Srivastava
To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work. — Nirmala Srivastava
How to get rid of the greed is the point and to get rid of the greed is that if I buy something - for… — Nirmala Srivastava
There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi
Seek the truly practical life, but seek it in such a way that it does not blind you to the spirit working in it. Seek… — Rudolf Steiner
There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed. — Unknown Author
Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed. — John Fowles
Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love,… — Unknown Author
The opposite of corporate greed is personal generosity. Government policies that enable the former and prevent the latter are both worthy of protest. — Cynthia Dill
Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed. — Cynthia Dill
Greed is normally balanced by fear. — Peter Schiff
Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies. — Jello Biafra

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