65 Quotes About Greed to Help You Value Your Blessings

1.“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” - Mahatma Gandhi

2. "Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed." - Albert Einstein

3. "Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue." - Andy Stanley

4. "Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer." - Julian Casablancas

5. "Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create." - Vanna Bonta

6. "For greed all nature is too little." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

7. "Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence." - Mason Cooley

8. “What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.” - Leigh Bardugo

9. "Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature." - Masanobu Fukuoka

10. "It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all." - Democritus

11. "Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed." - Thomas Harris

12. "Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul." - Little Richard

13. "We risk all in being too greedy." - Jean de La Fontaine

14. "The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him." - Saadi

15. “When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.” - Shirley Chisholm

16. "Greed has no boundaries." - Aristotle

17. "Greed's worst point is its ingratitude." - Seneca the Younger

18. "Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed." - Robert Loggia

19. "Those who own much have much to fear." - Rabindranath Tagore

20. "Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy." - Terry Tempest Williams

1. "Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction." - Erich Fromm

2. "Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything." - Eartha Kitt

3. “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” - Socrates

4. "The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion." - Bodhidharma

5. "We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet." - Stephen Hawking

6. "Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger." - Abu Bakr

7. "The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich." - Stanley Hauerwas

8. "Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything." - Publilius Syrus

9. "Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough." - Janwillem van de Wetering

10. "Greed is permanent slavery" - Ali ibn Abi Talib

11. "There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed." - Laozi

12. "Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance." - Charles Caleb Colton

13. "From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned." - Emile Durkheim

14. "Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame." - Arthur Schopenhauer

15. "Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind." - Gautama Buddha

1. "It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action." - Marian Wright Edelman

2. "We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces." - Hillary Clinton

3. "The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less." - Annie Dillard

4. "If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it." - John D. Rockefeller

5. "Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer." - Ajahn Chah

6. “So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden,and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.” - Lao Tzu

7. "You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need." - Vernon Howard

8. "All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow." - Velupillai Prabhakaran

9. “The Master said, 'If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.'” - Confucius

10. "It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly." - Bertrand Russell

11. "Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns." - Marc Estrin

12. "It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants." - Blaise Pascal

13. "You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh." - Wallace D. Wattles

14. "The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world." - B. C. Forbes

15. "There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been." - Rumi

1. "Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” - William Arthur Ward

2. "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend." - Melody Beattie

3. "If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul" - Harold S. Kushner

4. "Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance." - Eckhart Tolle

5. "God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'" - William Arthur Ward

6. "We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count." - Neal A. Maxwell

7. "The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest." - William Blake

8. "Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart." - Seneca the Younger

9. "When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth." - Sarah Ban Breathnach

10. "Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing." - Dan Buettner

11. "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not." - Epicurus

12. "Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast." - Melody Beattie

13. "When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears." - Tony Robbins

14. "Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life." - Christiane Northrup

15. "Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more." - Oprah Winfrey