Material Possessions Quotes:

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

- Echo Bodine

topic: Want, Possession, Material Possessions

A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

- Luke the Evangelist

topic: Men, Abundance, Material Possessions

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Life, Money, Greed, Material Wealth, Material Things

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

- Democritus

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy, Money And Happiness, Brighten Your Day

None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better.... I know a lot of people who have a lot of everything, and they're absolutely the most miserable people in the world. So it won't do anything for you unless you're a happy person and can have peace with yourself.

- Lenny Kravitz

topic: Gratitude, People, World, Miserable People, Material Possessions

The best things in life aren't things.

- Art Buchwald

topic: Love, Tattoo, Good Life, Making A Living, Spirit Of Life

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

- Thomas Aquinas

source: "Paul Ryan's faith in Ayn Rand is a political problem for Romney" by Giles Fraser, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2012.

topic: Powerful, Men, Aggravation, Material Possessions

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

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

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.19, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Birthday, Peace, Age, Mind Opening, Relinquishing

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

- John Wooden

topic: Success, Eye, Winning, Material Possessions

We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Karma, Hate, Yoga, Material Possessions, Secret Desire

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Peace, Growth, May, Moral Growth, Material Possessions

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

Best things in life aren't things.

- Mike Ness

topic: Best Things In Life, Money Doesn't Buy Happiness, Family First, Light Of My Life, Living Room Wall

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

- Donald Miller

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Inspirational Relationship, Amazing Relationship

The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.

- Paul Sweezy

source: "The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas". Book by Robert W. McChesney, May 1, 2008.

topic: Confidence, Meaningful, Real, Material Possessions

If you want something hard enough, whether it be a material possession or just something in your life, if you work hard enough there is absolutely no reason why you can't obtain it.

- Charles Trippy

topic: Hard Work, Want Something, Reason Why, Material Possessions

Barack and I were both raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable - their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves.

- Michelle Obama

topic: Sacrifice, Unconditional Love, Way, Material Possessions

Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

- Robert S. Jepson, Jr.

topic: War, Unhappiness, Strife, Money Power, Material Possessions

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

topic: Civilization, Assumption, Importance, Material Possessions

But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important.

- Tom Ford

topic: Beautiful, Fashion, Struggle, Material Possessions

One of the great arts in living is to learn the art of accurately appraising values. Everything that we think, that we earn, that we have given to us, that in any way touches our consciousness, has its own value. These values are apt to change with the mood, with time, or because of circumstances. We cannot safely tie to any material value. The values of all material possessions change continually, sometimes over night. Nothing of this nature has any permanent set value. The real values are those that stay by you, give you happiness and enrich you. They are the human values.

- George Matthew Adams

topic: Art, Real, Night, Material Possessions

No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it is often our pursuit of material possessions that causes our problems. If we want ultimate happiness and freedom from suffering, we must engage in the supreme practices of training the mind. There is no other way.

- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

topic: Happiness, Freedom, Practice, Ultimate Happiness, Lasting Happiness

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

- Barbara De Angelis

source: Barbara De Angelis (1997). “Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments”, Fine Communications

topic: Love, Romantic, Powerful, Formidable, Inspirational Romance

Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.210, Penguin Books India

topic: Men, Animal, Order, Days To Come, Material Possessions

The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.

- Lee L Jampolsky

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Self, Roots, Addiction, Searching For Happiness, Material Possessions

There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Love, Jesus, Able, Material Possessions, Undivided Love

Material possessions, in themselves, are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing and shelter. We must eat in order to stay alive. Yet if we are greedy, if we refuse to share what we have with the hungry and the poor, then we make our possessions into a false god. How many voices in our materialist society tell us that happiness is to be found by acquiring as many possessions and luxuries as we can! But this is to make possessions into a false god. Instead of bringing life, they bring death.

- Pope Benedict XVI

source: Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting with a Group of Disadvantaged Young People of The Rehabilitation Community of The University Of Notre Dame in Sydney, w2.vatican.va. July 18, 2008.

topic: Voice, Luxury, Long, False Gods, Material Possessions

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

In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.

- Brother Yun

source: Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2008). “Living Water: Powerful Teachings from the International Bestselling Author of The Heavenly Man”, p.177, Harper Collins

topic: Christian, West, Abundance, Material Possessions

I define success as a deep sense of peace, and we find the most peace when we live out our true calling and fulfill the purpose we were created for. History is filled with examples of people who had an abundance of material possessions but no peace because no matter how much stuff you have, there's not enough money in the world to fill the hole in your soul.

- DeVon Franklin

source: Source: www.biblegateway.com

topic: People, Soul, Purpose, Material Possessions

Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Accomplishment, World, Needs, Quiet Place, Material Possessions

Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought, or an emotion. It arises through unawareness of the formless inner dimension of consciousness or spirit, which is the essence of who you are. You are trapped in object consciousness, unaware of the dimension of inner space which alone is true freedom.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Spiritual, Fear, Thinking, Social Roles, Unawareness

Just never really got into cars and flossin' or never really cared, like I was always the type of person that felt like as long as I make enough money to support my family with this music that's all I really care about. You know what I mean so I don't really buy, I'm just not into like that many material possessions and stuff like that, because at the end of the day, it's just not that important.

- Eminem

source: "Feature: Eminem, Welcome Back". XXL Interview, www.xxlmag.com. May 18, 2009.

topic: Material Possessions

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

- John Selden

topic: Spirit, Abundance, Possession, Material Possessions

Material possessions and honors of the world do not endure. But your union as wife, husband, and family can. No sacrifice is too great to have the blessings of an eternal marriage. By making and keeping sacred temple covenants, we evidence our love for God, for our companion, and our real regard for our posterity-even those yet unborn. Our family is the focus of our greatest work and joy in this life; so will it be throughout all eternity.

- Russell M. Nelson

topic: Husband, Real, Sacrifice, Eternal Marriage, Material Possessions

Cars aren't merely modes of transit or material possessions to Texans; they are something of a state treasure. We share a special, almost religious attachment to the automobile, rooted, I suppose, in our mythological relationship to the horse, our economic underpinnings in the oil industry, and the inescapable fact that to get anywhere in this state, you have to cover a lot of ground.

- Jim Atkinson

topic: Religious, Horse, Attachment, Oil Industry, Material Possessions

The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

- Timothy Keller

topic: Love, Family, Success, Human Heart, Material Possessions

Some parents place undue priority on temporal and material possessions. Some are far less diligent in their efforts to immerse their children in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Remember that having religious observance in the home is as important as providing food, clothing and shelter.

- Quentin L. Cook

topic: Religious, Jesus, Children, Material Possessions

All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.

- Charlotte Erickson

topic: Art, New Beginnings, Journey, Open Road, My Own World

Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

- George D. Prentice

topic: Material Possessions

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

Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, nor more occasion for war.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.98, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: War, Conflict, Finding Peace, Peace Within, Material Possessions

I am convinced that wise planning is good. But plans, like material possessions, must always be held loosely. Yes - always! Plan wisely, but be ready for God to rearrange things and take you along paths that may feel dangerous to you. Don't sweat it; He knows what He's doing. And He isn't obligated to inform you ... or request permission to upset your neat little agenda!

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Wise, Sweat, Upset, Material Possessions

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

- Tony Shalhoub

topic: Emotional, Careers, People, Physical Health, Emotional Health

This generation is different. They are not as interested in chasing money or material possessions. I believe that this generation is more interested in seeking social change and a more just society than any generation since those that brought about the civil rights movement and the struggles for human dignity of the 1960s.

- Andrew Aydin

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Believe, Struggle, Rights, Chasing Money, Material Possessions

At the final day the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame. He will ask if we ministered to the sick, gave food and drink to the hungry, visited those in prison, or gave succor to the weak. When we reach out to assist the least of Heavenly Father’s children, we do it unto Him. That is the essence of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

topic: Jesus, Children, Father, Material Possessions

When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.

- Myrtle Reed

topic: Beautiful, Eye, Dark, Never Fade, Nevermore