(241 quotes found)
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed”
Mahatma Gandhi
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
Frederick Keonig
“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
Oscar Wilde
“Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.”
Mwai Kibaki
“Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief”
Buddha
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”
Erich Fromm
“A greedy father has thieves for children”
Serbian Proverb
“Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill our every need, That it shall not be just a day, But last a lifetime through, The miracle of Christmastime That brings God close to you”
Ann Schultz
“Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.”
Cyril Connolly
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