Possession Quotes - Page 7

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.

Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.

Badly gotten, badly spent. [Lat., Male partum, male disperit.]

Don’t accumulate possessions; accumulate experiences!

Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity for submerging themselves in what they feel is superlative in material things, as if fine possessions could make them fine.

Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.

Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.

Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

The greatest possession is Self-possession.

It takes some living to discover that the living itself is one's life, that life is not a goal to attain but a possession to relish.

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.

Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.