Guy Martin Quotes

We always want more. Whether it is better clothes, a bigger house, faster cars, or the latest gadgets, satisfaction in these days of consumerism is difficult to find.

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.

How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

I always wanted more - more of everything.

The media is convincing people that if you have that 'next thing,' that diamond, the right car, then you'd be happier.

I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

We think we own things, but the reality is, our things own us.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more.

People look at Instagram and say they want money, they want this, they want that.

Our entire society is rooted around the idea of more, and longer has become the measure of success.

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

We want the world and we want it...

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

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

The emptier a person's heart is, the more he or she needs to buy, own, and consume.

Anything you think you "must have" usually comes to own you.

As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.