Covetousness Quotes - Page 3

• Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and possibly everything that will happen. I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to pieces with ambition and nervousness and covetousness, they are relaxed. All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls, but Mack and the boys are healthy and curiously clean. They can do what they want. They can satisfy their appetites without calling them something else.

  John Steinbeck

  Ambition, Successful, Boys

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• Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness.

  Richard of Chichester

  Prayer, Pride, Cutting

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• Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

  Epictetus

  Cowardice, Dread, Happens

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.151, Lulu.com

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• We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

  Ovid

  Thieves, Care, May

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• If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mother, Ifs, Abolish

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• A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Self

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• A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.

  Edmund Spenser

  Heart, Men, Air

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• Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Economy, Revenue, Purchasers

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• NBC is excited about the investment in WWF Entertainment. The WWF is widely recognized as having created a leading brand and has done a remarkable job gathering large audiences in the coveted male demographics.

  Bob Wright

  Jobs, Nbc, Males

  "NBC Invests In WWFE" by Ian Ross, www.ign.com. March 28, 2000.

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• Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Honesty, Sobriety, Greed

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• Few love what they may have.

  Ovid

  Love, Appreciation, May

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• The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Soul, Infinite

  Ben Jonson (1875). “The works of Ben Jonson, with notes, and a biogr. memoir, by W. Gifford. With intr. and appendices by F. Cunningham”, p.42

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• The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

  Thomas Adams

  Men, Water, Greed

  Thomas Adams (2013). “The Sermons of Thomas Adams: The Shakespeare of Puritan Theologians”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

  Luke the Evangelist

  Men, Abundance, Material Possessions

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• Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.

  Gautama Buddha

  Organization, Envy, Doe

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• Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.

  Jeremy Collier

  Fire, Water, Elements

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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• The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization.

  William Graham Sumner

  Civilization, Giving, Envy

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• Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched.

  Jeremy Taylor

  People, Evil, Treasure

  Jeremy Taylor (1850). “Holy Living and Dying: Together with Prayers : Containing the Whole Duty of a Christian, and the Parts of Devotion Fitted to All Occasions and Furnished for All Necessities”, p.231

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• ...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.

  Joseph Hall

  Gratitude

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.34

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• ... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Bible, Money

  "Parents still tell kids to save money. That's really obsolete". Interview with Nastassia Arendse, citizen.co.za. March 8, 2017.

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• Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color. It is not. It is the inclusion of all color. White is every other color that exists, combined. So, too, is love not the absence of an emotion (hatred, anger, lust, jealousy, covetousness), but the summation of all feeling. It is the sum total. The aggregate amount. The everything.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love Is, Thinking, White

  "Conversations With God: Book One". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, January 22, 2009.

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• Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and greed always escalate into a vicious spiral, as we seek greater and greater gratification but find less and less contentment. . . . Striving to acquire the things of the world not only does not bring lasting happiness and peace, but it drives us to seek more. When "all we've ever wanted" is grounded in the temporal trappings of this world, it is never enough!

  Brent L. Top

  Lasting Happiness, Envy, Greed

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• Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Cheating, Abandonment, Poor

  John Chrysostom (2010). “Discourses Against Judaizing Christians (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 68)”, p.25, CUA Press

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• Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.

  Jeremy Collier

  Passion, Ambition, Luxury

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.108

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• All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends.

  Derek A. Cuthbert

  Cheating, Selfish, Lying

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