A Quote by Ethel Watts Mumford

The greatest possession is self-possession.

Ethel Watts Mumford

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Greatest Possession Self

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Ethel Watts Mumford
American - Author
1876 - 1940

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

Bryant H. McGill

Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth.

R.D. Blackmore

Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.

Georges Bataille

We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.

Sydney J. Harris

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Lao Tzu

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Aristotle

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Gabriela Mistral

The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession

Brad Stevens

the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.

Georgia Harkness

The possession of a true testimony is the most valuable possession that one could have. It gives one knowledge, the hope and assurance that one, through obedience, can be a partaker of all the promised blessings.

Marion G. Romney

Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope.

Heinz Pagels

Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.

Italo Calvino

Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse.