Possessions Quotes

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.