Mohamed Bamba Quotes

I always want more.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.

Greedy actors should never be satisfied.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

I'm realistic. I'm not becoming Farrah Fawcett here. If you stay beyond your welcome, it's for ego or money or because you can't exist without the limelight. I'm fine without it.

Just because I bought some jewelry and things I've always wished for and always wanted, it doesn't mean I'm not focused. It doesn't mean that I'm not hungry anymore.

That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

Protect me from what I want.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.