Possession Quotes

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

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

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD.

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.