Greedy Quotes

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya Angelou

Life, Between, Line

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.
Robert G. Allen

Crazy, Understand, Dream

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
Mike Tyson

Men, Crazy, Him

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
Chanakya

Peace, Happiness, Spiritual

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett

Others, Simply, Attempt

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Waiting, Lie, Sea

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Niccolo Machiavelli

May, General, Mankind

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
Lance Armstrong

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Success, Why, Nobody

The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Donald Trump

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
Mignon McLaughlin

Brave, Born, Remain

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.
Chief Joseph

Men, Rich, Found

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
Walter Annenberg

Character, Bad, Mark

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
Camille Paglia

Past, Late, Changing

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
Marian Anderson

God, Moment, Grace

I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young.
Lil Wayne

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
Dan Millman

Money, God, Energy

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
Donna Leon

Work, Nature, Best

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
Charles Baudelaire

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Share, Movement, Occupy

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.
George Aiken

Good, Bad, Same

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.
Alan Alda

Hard, Afraid, Knowing

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.
Akira Kurosawa

Work, Time, Good

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.
Colin Firth

Person, Next, Stuff

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.
Harry Chapin

Selfish, Mean, Fact

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
Chris Martin

Few, Less, Bottom

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.
Kenneth Branagh

Best, Greatest, Insecure

I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.
Nigella Lawson

Life, Time, Live

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
David Mamet

Else, Everybody, Ambitious

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
Michael Pollan

Tell, Corn, Farmers

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