Greed Quotes and Messages
Greed is the insatiable desire for more, and it can lead us to make harmful and selfish choices. But it is possible to overcome greed and find true fulfillment in life. These inspiring quotes about greed will remind you of the dangers of greed and motivate you to live a more generous and contented life.
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
Greed is the lack of confidence of one’s own ability to create.
Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.
A healthy desire for wealth is not greed. It’s a desire for life.
Our labor preserves us from three great evils — weariness, vice, and want.
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger
We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our greed.
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
We’re all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
It didn’t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.
The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we’re still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.
We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Greed alters our sense of priorities.
Happy the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.
Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.
Money is not the root of all evil, greed is.
All hardships in life arise from greed and desire.
Greed is the pursuit of money, wealth and power at the expense of others.
I believe greed is actually measured by what it costs you, not by what you have.
Greed has the ability to blind a person, making wrong seem right, and vice versa.
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.
When greed, selfishness, and personal pleasure supersede, any society is subject to collapse.
Greed is normally balanced by fear.