Greediness Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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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
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Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.
— Thomas Sprat
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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…
— Sufyan al-Thawri
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Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the…
— Augustin Thierry
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To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.
— Gautama Buddha
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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…
— Uthman ibn Affan
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Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.
— John Donne
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I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing…
— George Sand
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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…
— Zoroaster
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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…
— Zeno of Elea
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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…
— Henri Nouwen
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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…
— James Lind
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It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
— Charlescliq
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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity…
— Thomas Fuller
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An sacrificing things makes human as Deity and greediness make it devilish
— Mak_786
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If you are excessively acquiring more than what your needs or deserves in life. You should be ready to face the agony of greediness because…
— Kemmy Nola
Who Wrote These Greediness Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 Greediness Quotes as follows: