Desire for Wealth Quotes

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

The covetous man is always poor.

Covetousnesse breaks the bag.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

I feel like it's okay for us to grow up because a lot of us want to get rich and die young.

The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.

Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what the Lord calls coveting "the drop," while neglecting the "more weighty matters." (D&C 117:8) Myopic selfishness magnifies a mess of pottage and makes thirty pieces of silver look like a treasure trove. In our intense acquisitiveness, we forget Him who once said, "What is property unto me?"

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.

Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

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

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.