Possession Quotes

Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?

— Rajneesh

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

— Euripides

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

— Isocrates

Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately

— John Updike

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

— Blaise Pascal

To keep demands as much skill as to win.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

— Peace Pilgrim

“I'm mine. Not anyone else's.”

— Melissa Marr

We don't press to gain possession. We press to score goals.

— Jesse Marsch

My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals

— Brad Stevens

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

— Michel de Montaigne

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

— Gautama Buddha

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

— Sidney Poitier

“There’s only one thing I’m going to call you. Mine.” The possession in his voice makes me shiver. “Never.”

— Skye Warren

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

— Bill Russell

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and…

— Anonymous

How glorious and near to the angels is youth that is clean. This youth has joy unspeakable here and eternal happiness hereafter.…

— Harold B. Lee

One of my prized possessions is still the prefect's tie that I got in this school. I keep it with me. It…

— Julia Gillard

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of…

— Thiruvalluvar

Man who is created alone should be aware that he will also die alone. Yet during his life, he lives almost addicted…

— Harun Yahya

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather,…

— Ella Maillart

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and…

— Gilbert Highet

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

— Geoffrey Beene

“What is it which has always come between real life and me? What glass screen has, as it were, interposed itself between…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Ugh! Why couldn’t anyone ever trust her? She wasn’t a two-year-old. If her kindness killed her, then she was better off dead…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have…

— Mark Twain

Seek for a fresh invoice of grace. Unbelief can scoff or growl; faith is the nightingale that sings in the darkest hour.…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better… I know a lot of people who have a…

— Lenny Kravitz

We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another person, find it…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might…

— Christopher Hitchens

It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Overheard on a Saltmarsh" Nymph, nymph, what are your beads? Green glass, goblin. Why do you stare at them? Give them me.…

— Harold Monro

I also made two very important discoveries as time went on. In the first place, I discovered that making money was easy.…

— Peace Pilgrim

Material possessions, in themselves, are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing and shelter. We must eat in order…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner…

— Gautama Buddha

The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied…

— David Berlinski

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is a certain amount of righteous indignation I hold for the American culture, because to get back to the real root…

— George Carlin