Possession Quotes:

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

- Albert Camus

topic: Possession, Humans

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Stones, Necks, Possession

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

topic: Musician, Poet, Possession, Great Poet

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

- Andre Gide

topic: Possession, Values

We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.

- Anthony Horowitz

topic: Loyalty, Possession, No Money, Loyalty And Friendship

the possession of power brings on madness.

- Ariana Franklin

topic: Power, Madness, Possession

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

- Aristotle

topic: Desire, Mankind, Possession

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

- Augustus William Hare

topic: Men, Opinion, Possession

For you have in your possession a sacred trust. Guard it well.

- B. J. Palmer

topic: Sacred, Possession, Wells

Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

topic: Soul, Priceless, Possession

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Law, Nine, Possession

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Anxiety, Care, Possession

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Money, Possession, Great Power

We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.

- Bennett Madison

topic: Doe, Legends, Possession

There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word.

- Bill Courtney

source: Bill Courtney (2014). “Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love”, p.18, Weinstein Publishing

topic: Taken, Long, Possession

Beauty is a possession not our own.

- Bion of Smyrna

topic: Beauty, Possession

Possessions are a way of turning money into problems.

- Brian Eno

topic: Way, Problem, Possession

The greatest possession we have costs nothing; it's known as love....

- Brian Jett

topic: Love You, Cost, Possession, Amazing Love

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Mind, Possession

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

topic: Mathematics, Possession, Enjoyment, Knowledge And Learning, Great Math

The use of our possessions shows us up for what we actually are.

- Charles Caldwell Ryrie

topic: Christian, Use, Possession

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

- Charles Kingsley

topic: Mean, World, Possession

What a child digs for becomes his own possession,

- Charlotte Mason

topic: Children, Possession

Possession is eleven points in the law.

- Colley Cibber

source: Colley Cibber, Charles Bathurst (1777). “Love's last shift; Woman's wit; Love makes a man; She would and she would not”, p.121

topic: Law, Eleven, Possession

Our children are the only possessions we can take to heaven.

- Croft M. Pentz

topic: Children, Heaven, Possession

Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.

- Dan Davis

topic: Possession

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

- Daniel Webster

topic: Communication, Taken, Possession

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

- David Hume

topic: Possession, Goods, Insatiable, Destructive

Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.

- David Platt

topic: Possession

A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.

- E. Stanley Jones

topic: Self, Possession, Atrophy

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

- Edwin Louis Cole

topic: Denial, Sin, Possession

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire ...

- Eliza Haywood

source: Eliza Haywood (2004). “Fantomina and Other Works”, p.28, Broadview Press

topic: Desire, Possession

We are made loveless by our possessions.

- Elizabeth of Hungary

topic: Loveless, Made, Possession

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

- Epicurus

topic: Life, Easy, Possession, Servility, Epicureanism

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

- Erica Jong

topic: Stars, Memories, Possession

The greatest possession is Self-possession.

- Ethel Mumford

topic: Confidence, Self, Possession

The use of riches is better than their possession.

- Fernando de Rojas

source: "La Celestina". Book by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.

topic: Use, Riches, Possession

The goods we spend we keep; and what we save We lose; and only what we lose we have.

- Francis Quarles

topic: Possession, Goods

I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.

- Gary Shteyngart

topic: Book, Possession

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

- George Carlin

topic: Possession, Values

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

- George D. Prentice

topic: Self, Possession, Earthly Possessions

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

- George Davis Herron

topic: Greed, Possession, Power Over Others

We are not the sum of our possessions.

- George H. W. Bush

topic: Patriotic, Possession, Prized Possessions

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

- George Meredith

topic: Duty, Felicity, Possession

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

- George Santayana

topic: Children, Men, Possession, Exertion

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

- Hannah More

topic: Expectations, Desire, Possession

Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Life, Life Is, Possession

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

- Henry George

topic: Entrepreneur, Possession, Values

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Men, Possession

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

- Hosea Ballou

topic: Possession, Clear, Clear Conscience

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

- Isocrates

source: "Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)" edited by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, (p. 495), 1906.

topic: Possession

You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.

- Iyanla Vanzant

topic: Combination, Possession

Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Naked, Earth, Possession

I find all this money a considerable burden.

- J. Paul Getty

topic: Burden, Possession

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

- Jackie Robinson

source: Jackie Robinson, Alfred Duckett (2013). “I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson”, p.33, Harper Collins

topic: Treasure, Dignity, Possession, Luxurious

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show

- James A. Garfield

topic: Doubt, Ability, Possession

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

- James Cash Penney

topic: Men, Economy, Possession, Material Possessions

Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?

- James Hetfield

topic: My Family, Prized Possessions, Possession

we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.

- Jane Porter

topic: Appreciation, Blessing, Possession

If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball

- Johan Cruijff

topic: Play, Balls, Possession

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.

- John Adams

topic: Mankind, Possession, Curse

Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.

- John Cassian

topic: Humility, Possession, Turns

Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.

- John Cudahy

topic: Coins, Illusion, Possession, Material Possessions

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

- John D. Rockefeller

topic: Men, Important, Possession

What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.

- John Lancaster Spalding

source: John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

topic: Enjoy, Possession

Imagine no possessions; I wonder if you can.

- John Lennon

topic: Wonder, Imagine, Possession, Imagine That

Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.

- John Selden

topic: Spirit, Abundance, Possession, Material Possessions

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Law, Eleven, Possession

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Happiness, Possession, Deceived

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

- Julie Harris

topic: Football, Possession

Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.

- Julien Benda

source: Julien Benda (1969). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”

topic: Men, Possession

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

- Juvenal

topic: Writing, Insane, Possession

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

- Katharine Fullerton Gerould

topic: Men, Fine, Possession, Altruism

Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.

- Lisa Kleypas

topic: Letting Go, Taken, Possession

Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.

- Lord Byron

topic: People, Reason, Possession

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

- Louis Sullivan

topic: Sorrow, Mankind, Possession, Treacherous, Saturated

People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity for submerging themselves in what they feel is superlative in material things, as if fine possessions could make them fine.

- Mabel Seeley

topic: People, Fine, Possession, Superlatives, Cheapness

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Desire, Possession

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Theft, Possession

Enthusiasm is a divine possession.

- Margaret Sanger

topic: Enthusiasm, Divine, Possession

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

- Martha Gellhorn

source: Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

topic: Freedom, Loneliness, Possession

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

topic: Missing, Said, Possession

Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.

- Maximus the Confessor

topic: Christian, Orthodox, Possession, Orthodox Christian

She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.

- Michael Cunningham

topic: Kind, Possession, Command

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

- Monique Wittig

source: Monique Wittig (2007). “Les Guerilleres”, p.88, University of Illinois Press

topic: Names, Possession, Refuse

I felt I was owned by possessions.

- Nicolas Berggruen

topic: Possession

Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend.

- Nina Campbell

topic: Old Friends, Want, Possession

I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

- Olga Kurylenko

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hate, I Hate, Possession, Possessiveness

The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Identity, Rich, Possession, Personal Identity

The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.

- P. T. Barnum

topic: Order, Perfect, Possession

I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.

- Patricia Briggs

topic: Hands, Adam, Possession

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.15, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Unnecessary, Burden, Possession, Great Freedom, Minimalist

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

- Pericles

source: "Homage to Greece". Book by Anglo-American-Hellenic Bureau of Education, 1943.

topic: Weapons, Possession

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

- Peter Brook

source: Peter Brook (1996). “The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

topic: Music, Invisible, Possession

Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.

- Peter Damian

topic: Christian, Fighting, Possession, Earthly Possessions

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

topic: Rich, Stolen, Possession, Prized Possessions

Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.

- Richard J. Foster

topic: Simplicity, Destroying, Possession

My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.

- Robert Coover

topic: Style, Progression, Possession, Disenchantment

Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.

- Russell Lynes

topic: Friendly, Useless, Possession

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

- Samuel Smiles

topic: Character, Good Character, Possession

True love can exist only in freedom from possession.

- Shekhar Kapur

topic: Love, Possession

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.

- Sherwood Anderson

topic: People, Facts, Possession

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

- Shmuel Yosef Agnon

topic: Return, Jerusalem, Possession

The love of possession is a desease with them.

- Sitting Bull

topic: Love, Possession

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

- Socrates

topic: Friendship, Faithful, Possession, Faithful Friends, Greek Philosopher

Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.

- St. Catherine of Siena

topic: Possession

It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.

- Stanislaw Ulam

source: "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 52), 1991.

topic: Taken, Mathematics, Possession

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

source: Sylvia Townsend Warner (1978). “Lolly Willowes: or, The loving huntsman”, Charles River Books

topic: Tree, Earth, Possession

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

- Ted Kotcheff

topic: Never Quit, Possession, Understood

Hope is the most universal of human possessions.

- Thales

topic: Possession, Humans

O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time!

- Theresa Villiers

topic: Possession, Valuable

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

topic: Men, Gold, Possession, Fewer

Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Lovely, Possession, Desirable

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

- Thorstein Veblen

topic: Possession, Aesthetic

So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect.

- Thorstein Veblen

topic: Self, Complacency, Possession

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.

- Vera Brittain

source: "Married Love". Poems of the War and After, 1934.

topic: Meek, Possession, Profession

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Charity, Possession, Wells

It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them

- Walter Hilton

topic: Renounce, Easier, Possession, Worldly Possessions

The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

- Walter Scott

topic: Sun, Empires, Possession

I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.

- Watchman Nee

topic: Firsts, Possession

Germany must have her place in the sun.

- Wilhelm II

topic: Sun, Germany, Possession

Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

- William Ernest Henley

topic: World, Anthology, Possession

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

- William Gilmore Simms

topic: Charity, World, Possession

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

topic: Law, Nine, Possession

Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.

- William Powell

source: "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, "Foreword", 1971.

topic: Taken, Given, Possession, Material Possessions

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

- Xenocrates

topic: Excellence, Possession, Subservient

Never measure your life by possessions. Measure it by the hearts you've touched, the smiles you created & the love you shared.

- Ziad K. Abdelnour

topic: Love You, Heart, Possession

When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.

- Zoë Heller

topic: Existence, Possession, Thinness, Confronting, Furnishings

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.

- Zoroaster

source: "The Gathas". Book by Zoroaster. Translation by Dinshaw Jamshedji Irani, in K. D. Irani, Rabindranath Tagore, p.96, Yasna 43, 15, www.zarathushtra.com. 1999.

topic: Mind, Possession

I feel like each possession is a battle and you never want to lose a battle.

- Draymond Green

topic: Battle, Want, Possession

God doesn't want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions.

- Echo Bodine

topic: Want, Possession, Material Possessions

If we are guided to give up our possessions, it will be a positive thing for us.

- Echo Bodine

topic: Giving Up, Possession, Positive Things

Nothing on this planet is permanent, and this is why I believe there can be no such thing as possession.

- Sebastien Foucan

topic: Believe, Planets, Possession

He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.25, Courier Corporation

topic: Heart, Joy, Possession

How many things I can do without!

- Socrates

source: Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers

topic: Life, Money, Possession

There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.103

topic: Two, Debt, Possession

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

- Jean Racine

topic: Anticipation, Felicity, Possession

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.

- Paul Gauguin

source: Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.13, Courier Corporation

topic: Skills, Moral, Possession

You cannot all abandon your possessions, but at least you can change your attitude about them. All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Attitude, Giving, Possession, Change Your Attitude

Entry is not equivalent to possession.

- Stephen Fry

topic: Possession, Entry, Property

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Friendship, True Friend, Possession

As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.

- Lorrie Moore

topic: Children, Eye, Possession, Lingering

We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.

- Lorrie Moore

source: Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.263, Vintage

topic: Twenties, Metaphor, Possession

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

- Albert Camus

source: Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.261, Vintage

topic: Love, Desire, Possession, Insatiable

The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Pursuit, Possession, Valuable, Pursuit Of Knowledge

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.156, Courier Corporation

topic: Special, Virtue, Possession

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Greed, Materialism, Possession

Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Lost, Possession, Findings

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.52, VM eBooks

topic: Mean, Use, Possession

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

topic: Women, Possession, Tenderness

Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.81, Penguin

topic: Possession, Arrested, Possessed

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

- Sydney J. Harris

source: Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

topic: Able, Renounce, Possession

Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.135, Hackett Publishing

topic: Love, Together, Possession, Exclusive

Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Mark, Fraud, Possession

The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

topic: Empowering, Partners, Possession

Badly gotten, badly spent. [Lat., Male partum, male disperit.]

- Plautus

topic: Males, Possession

If you spend a thing you can not have it. [Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]

- Plautus

topic: Possession, Can Not, Ifs

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

source: Geoffrey Chaucer, Theodore Alois William BUCKLEY, Edward Henry Corbould, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1853). “The Canterbury Tales ... From the Text and with the Notes and Glossary of Thomas Tyrwhitt, Condensed and Arranged Under the Text. A New Edition. [Edited by Thomas A. W. Buckley.] Illustrated by Edward Corbould”, p.298

topic: Men, Possession, Ifs

Being a Christian is not just about following commandments: it is about letting Christ take possession of our lives and transform them.

- Pope Francis

topic: Christian, Possession, Following

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Freedom, Philosophical, Possession

The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.

- R. C. Sproul

topic: Church Today, Problem, Possession

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

- Rabindranath Tagore

source: Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.12, Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Treasure, Limits, Possession

The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2000). “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter”, p.14, Modern Library

topic: Quality, Individual, Possession, Manliness

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.

- George MacDonald

topic: Honor, Wealth, Possession

Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?

- Rajneesh

topic: Fame, Possession

He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.

- Thomas Merton

source: Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

topic: Imagination, Trust In God, Possession, Hope In God

Don’t accumulate possessions; accumulate experiences!

- Mark Batterson

source: Mark Batterson, Richard Foth, Susanna Foth Aughtmon (2015). “A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime”, p.25, Baker Books

topic: Possession

I've been very careful. I've gone through pretty much everything. I'm very careful not to let go of the prized possessions, or too much of it that I'll regret in the future.

- Gillian Anderson

source: Source: film.avclub.com

topic: Letting Go, Regret, Possession

If you're prosperous in soul, you'll be prosperous in whole, regardless of how many and how much physical possessions you have

- Mark Victor Hansen

topic: Soul, Possession, Whole

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

- John Locke

topic: Discipline, Self Discipline, Possession

There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Passion, Crime, Possession, Crimes Of Passion

The property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, which is more generally accorded where it does not exist, nor more frequently disallowed where it prevails.

- Anthony Trollope

source: Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.2078, e-artnow

topic: Men, Doe, Possession

The first of all beautiful things is the continual possession of God.

- Gregory of Nazianzus

topic: Beautiful, Firsts, Possession

Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.

- David Platt

source: David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.120, Multnomah

topic: Possession

If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.

- Arthur Ashe

topic: Mean, Reputation, Possession

Possessions only provide temporary happiness.

- Rick Warren

source: Rick Warren (2011). “What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life”, p.13, Harper Collins

topic: Possession, Temporary

How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.

- Denis Waitley

source: Denis Waitley, Dayna Waitley, Deborah Waitley (1999). “The Psychology of Winning for Women: What Every Woman Needs to Know, what Every Man Needs to Understand”, Executive Excellence Pub

topic: Important, May, Possession, Material Possessions

For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

- Jonathan Swift

source: "A Modest Proposal and Other Prose".

topic: Happiness, Possession, Deceived

Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.

- Rita Mae Brown

source: Rita Mae Brown (2014). “In Her Day”, p.122, Bantam

topic: Secret, Guarantees, Possession

God wants the world to see what God can do with his purchased possessions. So he prunes you.

- Max Lucado

source: Source: www.biblegateway.com

topic: World, Want, Possession, Prunes

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

- Benjamin Disraeli

source: Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

topic: Years, Hours, Possession

A possession can't make you happy.

- Robert Thurman

source: Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

topic: Make You Happy, Possession

The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.

- Henry James

source: The Ivory Tower notes (1917)

topic: Black, Possession, Behinds

As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Possession

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Possession, Enjoyment, Mere

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

- Herodotus

topic: Precious Possessions, Possession, Precious Friends

Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

- Herodotus

topic: Honor, Shady, Possession

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Mediocrity, Possession, Native

Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.

- Eddie Rickenbacker

source: Jessie Alford Nunn, Robert J. Donovan, Eddie Rickenbacker, Leland Stowe, James Albert Michener (1966). “Four complete true adventures”

topic: Fate, Moments, Possession, Material Possessions

Hope is the best possession.

- William Hazlitt

source: William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1468, Delphi Classics

topic: Hopeful, Anticipation, Possession

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

- Brandon Sanderson

source: Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.535, Macmillan

topic: Cities, Possession, Walks

Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure. The comedy of errors”, p.424

topic: Slander, Possession, Succession

Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.

- Saint Basil

topic: Treats, Resolve, Possession

Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.

- Irvin D. Yalom

topic: Existence, Possession, Plans

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

- Elbert Hubbard

source: Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

topic: Illusion, Pursuit, Possession, Disillusion

Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Beloved, Unlimited, Possession

Care that is once enter'd into the breast Will have the whole possession ere it rest.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Care, Possession, Breasts

By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Mean, Destroying, Possession, Order Of The Phoenix

And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle - Flint alongside her - poke him in the eye, Angelina - it was a joke, professor, it was a joke.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Eye, Professors, Possession

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

- Samuel Smiles

topic: Knowledge, Possession, Labor