1,220 Quotes About Greed

Your deepest craving is to find the Supreme Power. Nothing the world has to offer can satisfy it. This unsatisfaction can either lead you to Him or to some addiction.

From our immersion in scarcity arise the habits of scarcity. From the scarcity of time arises the habit of hurrying. From the scarcity of money comes the habit of greed. From the scarcity of attention comes the habit of showing off. From the scarcity of meaningful labor comes the habit of laziness. From the scarcity of unconditional acceptance comes the habit of manipulation.

What I ‘want’ for my life is often not what I ‘need’ for my life, although I feel that I ‘need’ to talk myself into making it a ‘want.

If we chase the things that ‘tickle our ears,’ we’ll probably end up finding out that they’re going to ‘torture our lives.

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

И все по-ясно виждам, че нашият свят ще загине от алчността си.

I rigorously lament all of the many things that I don’t have. But in this self-imposed and rather lively pity-party to which I’ve invited myself, what I forget are the resources I do have that equip me to obtain what I don’t.

If my prayers have devolved into being nothing more than reciting a list of things that I want, I might as well just go to the mall.

One day incentives may catch up with inflation, but it will never catch up with our aspirations.