A Quote by Samuel Smiles

Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.

Samuel Smiles

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Samuel Smiles
Scottish - Author
December 23, 1812 - April 16, 1904

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

Samuel Smiles

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

Friedrich Schiller

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.

Milarepa

The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.

Chuck Palahniuk

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.

Claudius Claudianus

We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.

Felix Adler

Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.

Jane Porter

One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

George D. Prentice

Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

Bruce McCulloch

I feel Karna is the noblest character in the 'Mahabharat,' and Duryodhan is reason for the war between cousins.

Puneet Issar

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

Thomas Clarkson

Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist

Harry Greb

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