Top Greed Quotes By Stoics, Christians, and Contemporary Wise Philosophers

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

– Mahatma Gandhi

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

— Mwai Kibaki

Greed is not a financial issue. It’s a heart issue.

– Andy Stanley

Greed is the lack of confidence of one’s own ability to create.

– Vanna Bonta

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.

– Thomas Harris

The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.

– Zeno

Greed blinds us from recognizing the true value of what we already possess.

– Paulo Coelho

Greed robs us of our ability to appreciate the simple joys in life.

– Dalai Lama

Greed sneaks into our lives disguised as ambition, suffocating our ability to empathize and connect with others.

– Brené Brown

If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.

— Isaac Asimov

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

— Erich Fromm

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

– Socrates

Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

– 2 Corinthians 9:7

No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

– Matthew 6:24

Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.

– Proverbs 14:31

The stingy are eager to get rich and are unaware that poverty awaits them.

– Proverbs 28:22

Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, watching over them—not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not pursuing dishonest gain, but eager to serve.

– 1 Peter 5:2

Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

– 1 Timothy 6:9

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

– Seneca the Younger

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

– Seneca the Younger

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

– Seneca the Younger

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

– Seneca the Younger

Golden roofs break men’s rest

– Seneca the Younger

These individuals have riches just as we say that we ‘have a fever,’ when really the fever has us.

– Seneca the Younger

Let us give in the same spirit with which we would want to receive — above all, generously, promptly, with no hesitation.

– Seneca the Younger

If someone doesn’t give because he didn’t receive, then he only gave in order to receive; he supplies the ingrates — whose vice is to avoid giving back whenever possible — with just cause.

– Seneca the Younger