Desires Quote by Jeremy Taylor

Poor is the man who desires a lot

— Leonardo da Vinci

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

— Seneca the Younger

Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from…

— Orison Swett Marden

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires…

— Geraldine Brooks

He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

— Seneca the Younger

No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence!

— Mehmet Murat ildan

A man is wealthy in the measure in which his wants and desires decrease

— Dada JP Vaswani

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

— Democritus

No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.

— Richard P. Feynman

Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.

— Newell Dwight Hillis

A beggar considers himself poor because he has nothing, but a rich man considers himself poor only because he has no money.

— Vikrant Parsai