Abundance Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abundance Consumerism Greed Overconsumption Produce
Greed says there is never enough. Abundance says there is more than enough. Greed closes the door behind itself. Abundance opens the door for… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. — William Pitt The Younger Copy Share Image
When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Life is open to us all. No one will ever see life exactly the same as another. Some folks will argue that one who… — Sereda Aleta Dailey Copy Share Image
Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that… — T.I Copy Share Image
Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New… — Gael Greene Copy Share Image
I always tell Asian actors, especially Filipinos wanting to break into Hollywood, to study, study and study and show their best. I haven't stopped… — Reggie Lee Copy Share Image
“Without darkness, we may never know how bright the stars shine. Without battles, we could not know what victory feels like. Without adversity, we… — Julie-Anne Copy Share Image
It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image