Joyce Brothers Quotes

...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.

To have and to want more that is life.

Whoever desires is always poor.

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

The mind always hankers for more and more. If you have money, it hankers for more money; if you have prestige, it hankers for more prestige; if you have knowledge, it hankers for more knowledge. Mind lives in the 'more.'

People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Everyone wants, wants, wants... and when they have, they feel desperate.

I will never be able to say 'Yeah, O.K., I'm good,' you know? I will always want more, and more, and more.

I think we're all greedy. Who do you know who says, 'I have enough! I don't need any more!'? It's part of human nature.

That's the thing with me: I'm never satisfied.

I don't think I have ever been completely satisfied, which is probably the right way to say it. I always felt like I wanted more.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

He who is greedy is always in want.

It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?

The strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd Of all that earth can give; but earth can give no rest.

The covetous man is ever in want.