“When confidence in the power to create is obscured, greed sets in, for greed is nothing but the loss of confidence in one’s own ability to create.”
State of the Art (2000)
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Attributed to Laozi in self-help books and on social media, this quotation is of unknown origin and date.
Misattributed

“There was one temporal power greater than the greatest sorcery. Greed.”
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 23, “Glittering Stone: Fortress with No Name” (p. 448)

Desire: (p.23)
The Path to Enlightenment is not a Highway, 1996

“Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.”
As quoted in And I Quote : The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (1992) by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham, p. 278

“There is nothing as energizing, as confidence-building, as sustaining as the power of love.”
How substantial is its influence on the human mind and heart! How great and magnificent is its power in overcoming fear and doubt, worry and discouragement!
Standing for Something: Ten Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes, Times Books. ISBN 0-8129-3317-6. (2000).

In Quest of Democracy (1991)