Possession Quotes · Page 19

A smile and good energy. They will take you farther than any material possession.

— Caroline Ghosn

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

— Plautus

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

— Neal Stephenson

Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances

— Franz Beckenbauer

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

— Sophocles

A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

— Jerry Bridges

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

— E. Stanley Jones

Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas…

— David Hume

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really…

— Sheryl Crow

Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard…

— Anonymous

The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to…

— Ambrose Bierce

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of…

— Emma Donoghue

There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character,…

— Samuel Smiles

I bought a Honda CRX Si, a two seater, and immediately after I took possession, my wife and I found out we…

— Yannick Bisson

Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be…

— John Dewey

If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's…

— Laozi

I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to…

— Karen Armstrong

This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a…

— Margaret Mead

“Non-possession” does not mean having nothing. It does not mean to live as a penniless beggar. Rather than meaning having nothing, it…

— Boep Joeng

This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and…

— Rick Warren

The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or…

— Hanan al-Shaykh

Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession…

— Charles Krauthammer

Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering,…

— Clarence Darrow

I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as…

— Ward Churchill

We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which…

— Wilford Woodruff

The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money -…

— Vivian Gornick

The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of…

— Friedrich Engels

Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and…

— Eric Hoffer

“We have possessed virtually nothing in our life in Italy. In England, I became increasingly sure that to possess something was to…

— Rachel Cusk

“The guest was now the master of Wuthering Heights: he held firm possession, and proved to the attorney, who, in his turn,…

— Emily Brontë

It's OK to have wealth. But keep it in your hands, not in your heart.

— S. Truett Cathy

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

— Immanuel Kant

Every possession matters, and everything goes down to the wire.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.

— Frederick Lenz

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

— John Selden

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

— Monique Wittig

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

— Marcel Proust