192 quotes found
“You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.”
“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”
“I find it odd- the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I l...”
“Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?”
“Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
“Money is like a childrarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who ha...”
“The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.”
“You can never have too much money.”
“I dont believe knowing can save us. What isconstant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even Godwho knows all that can be knownseems powerless to change.”
“He pointed to the money, and said:"The love of it is the root of all evil. There it lies, the ancient tempter, newly red with the shame of its latest victory--the dishonor of a priest of God and hi...”
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“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be ...”
“Lust for power, greed, false religions reign today because of lack of vision and passion to redeem nations”
“What is morality? It is not the following of enjoined rules of conduct. It is not a question of standing above temptations, or of conquering hate, anger, greed, lust and violence. Questioning your ...”
“We live in a world where we give our pounds to those who have too much and our pennies to those who have too little”
“The greatest of our virtues and the worst of our sins is wanting nothing less than more.”
“We have had enough of the old men and the money-counters!" And people further off took up the cry: "Up Bowman, and down with the moneybags,”
“Throughout the 1980's, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough a bout how to be a good member of a community, to define the common ...”
“Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He's after food, and death is after him.(Saadi)”
“They'd taken everything. Everything, and people simply had let them. People had meekly surrendered the world to them in hopes those CEOs would finally have enough, finally have reason to leave them...”
