Possessor Quotes
74 quotes by 62 authors
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to…
— Anne Bronte
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
— Andrew Carnegie
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The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings…
— Chanakya
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It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor…
— Aristotle
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's…
— Herman Melville
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The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
— George Davis Herron
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We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more…
— Seneca the Younger
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For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not…
— Plato
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When earth life is over and things appear in their true perspective, we shall more clearly see and realize what the Lord and his prophets…
— Marion G. Romney
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I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in any…
— Max Born
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If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.
— Ravi Zacharias
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Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The example of the…
— Simon Newcomb
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Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.
— George Washington
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Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses…
— P T Barnum
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