if… says: ‘Do not be greedy, be generous’, you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity
– Idries Shah
Related Quotes:
- Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy. – Idries Shah
- Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’. – Idries Shah
- The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it. – Idries Shah
- The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness. – Billy Graham
- Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because… they appeal to your greed. – Idries Shah
- If your desire for ‘good’ is based on greed, it is not good, but greed. – Idries Shah
- One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life. – Susan Sontag
- All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner. – Idries Shah
- Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful – Warren Buffett
- The Church says: the body is a sin.Science says: the body is a machine.Advertising says: The body is a business.The Body says: I am a fiesta. – Eduardo Galeano
- Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He’s after food, and death is after him.(Saadi) – Idries Shah
- Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one’s true interests. – Idries Shah
- A life’s meaning comes not from the manner in which one dies, but in the manner in which one lives. – Mike Kalmbach
- Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others. – Idries Shah
- Envy and greed always-”always-”exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace. – Billy Graham
- Don’t rush your legs to feed your greed. They will rush to judge you as the greedy one. – Auliq Ice
- The only wealth that mattered was affinity and generosity. Affinity towards oneself and generosity towards the world itself. – Soroosh Shahrivar
- Generosity is not measured by how much we give away. Generosity is measured by how much we keep for ourselves. – John Weece
- For others to be generous it requires that a person accept their generosity for the cycle to be completed. – Susan C Young
- Generosity is a mark of bravery, so all Sioux boys were taught to be generous. – Luther Standing Bear
- Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. – Idries Shah
- A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person – Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
- If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at the expense of another. – PD Ouspensky
- What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others. – Dada Bhagwan
- The essential quality of a market system, contrary to popular thinking, is not that it promotes greed; but rather, that it renders greed harmless. – Israel M Kirzner
- We all have to feed the greed of other people until we find people to feed our greed and life goes on. – Neymat Khan
- A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big. – Scott Edward Shjefte
- What’s true about you is what God says about you. Not what your mirror says. Not what your past says. – Mark Hall
- Be contented with the things of the world. Develop greed for God. – Radhe Maa
- Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently. – Pamela Cummins
- From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the sou’s point of view, you develop appreciation. – Ram D
- To develop the person inside you is to pay attention and develop life within yourself – Sunday Adelaja
- To develop stronger focus, develop a greater reason or meaning for your goal. – Mensah Oteh
- Tragic as it is when a child fails to develop physically or mentally, even more tragic is a Christian who fails to develop spiritually. – Billy Graham
- Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications. – Orrin Woodward
- As you develop, the people around you also develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree. – Choa Kok Sui
- [T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity. – Tahir Shah
- When you don’t come closer to the goal and don’t make everyday steps for achieving it, we will not get the results we inwardly set out to attain – Sunday Adelaja
- Tearless grief bleeds inwardly – Christian Nestell Bovee
- Let us choose one another as companions!Let us sit at each other’s feet!Inwardly we have many harmonies – think notThat we are only what we see. – Elif Shafak