Possession Quotes

1254 Possession quotes by 873 unique authors

It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and… — Judith Jamison
It's OK to have wealth. But keep it in your hands, not in your heart. — S. Truett Cathy
I find all this money a considerable burden. — J. Paul Getty
I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their souls as metallic… — Selwyn Hughes
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money. — E. Stanley Jones
I've just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would… — Aristotle Onassis
Consider your possessions loaned to you by God. — St. Catherine of Siena
In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate… — William Butler Yeats
OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of… — Ambrose Bierce
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and… — James Madison
The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a… — Alexander Hamilton
The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all… — Alexander Hamilton
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you,… — Honore de Balzac
There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love… — Mother Teresa
Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat. — Romain Rolland
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. — Thomas Jefferson
From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results. — James Madison
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic,… — Joan Didion
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
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… — Michelle Obama
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the… — Bernard Baruch
He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives… — Camille Paglia
Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it. — Lord Byron
The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me. — Albert Einstein

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