Possession Quotes

1254 Possession quotes by 873 unique authors

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the… — Mortimer Adler
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like… — Thomas Carlyle
These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid… — Pope Leo XIII
Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might… — Pope Leo XIII
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give. — David O. McKay
Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To… — Unknown Author
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever… — Edward Gibbon
Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the… — Jim Elliot
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty.… — Edward Gibbon
Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions. — Duane Elgin
The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession — Brad Stevens
The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions — Brad Stevens
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
As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake… — Horace Mann
And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses -… — Rainer Maria Rilke
A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. — Thomas Browne
Some things are up to us [eph' hÃªmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses,… — Epictetus
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death… — Zygmunt Bauman
In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession. — Phyllis Schlafly
For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man… — Thomas Merton

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