“The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“If you seek nothing, you'll earn everything; but if you seek everything, you'll earn nothing.”
Miteb Khantash Alqarni
“Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.”
Mark Twain
“Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed”
Channing Pollock