Possession Quotes · Page 15

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

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

— Jesse Marsch

When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession.

— Confucius

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

— Jose Mourinho

The kids competed for a full 32 minutes. We want the kids to compete on every possession.

— Eric Davis

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

— Henri Rousseau

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

— David O. McKay

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good…

— Brian Pinkerton

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not…

— Dalai Lama

“He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have--everything of value was in the…

— Orson Scott Card

The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is…

— Kedar Joshi

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

— William Lyon Phelps

A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate…

— Philemon

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride…

— Graham Greene

You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me…

— Kate Chopin

When you're faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family. Your friends. Your material possessions. Your beauty.…

— Yasmin Mogahed

The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in…

— Paul Sweezy

The Indian who fells the tree that he may gather the fruit, and the Arab who plunders the caravans of commerce are…

— Edward Gibbon

The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by…

— Alexander Hamilton

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any…

— Samuel Hopkins

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military…

— Edward Gibbon

Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is…

— Walter Benjamin

So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and…

— Rudolf Rocker

When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face,…

— Louisa May Alcott

The mere possession of a vision is not the same as living it, nor can we encourage others with it if we…

— Tim McCoy

The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances,…

— Joseph Kastein

“in our present state of society woman possesses not; she is under possession,” referring to laws that barred married women from owning…

— Megan Marshall

A testimony is a most precious possession because it is not acquired by logic or reason alone, it cannot be purchased with…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being…

— Peace Pilgrim

We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that…

— Erich Fromm

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

— Ben Jonson

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

— James Dickey

I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don't want possessions to hold me down.

— Diana Ross

If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Gloria Steinem

“It produces them and makes no claim to the possession of them;”

— Laozi

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

— Epicurus

“My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but the fewness of my wants.”

— Joseph Brotherton