Top 618 Possesses Quotes & Sayings

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Whoever controls the territory possesses it.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

Who lives content with little possesses everything.

History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.

Nobody owns the money he/she possesses. They hold it just as a trustee.

We have never, ever, in the history of football seen a guy that possesses what Aaron Rodgers possesses. Nobody, no quarterback in history, has the touch, the accuracy, the ability to throw the ball moving left or right, throw the ball from the pocket, throw the ball from different plains.

Britain possesses no climate, only weather.

... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.

Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.

Four characteristics constitute anyone who possesses them a sheer hypocrite, and anyone who possesses one of them possesses a characteristic of hypocrisy till he abandons it: when he is trusted he betrays his trust, when he talks he lies, when he makes a covenant he acts treacherously and when he quarrels he abuses.

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

All the worth which the human being possesses all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State... For Truth is the Unity of the universal and subjective Will; and the Universal is to be found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth. We have in it, therefore, the object of History in a more definite shape than before; that in which Freedom obtains objectivity...

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

Many have said much about love, but you will find love itself only if you seek it among the disciples of Christ. For only they have true Love as love's teacher. 'Though I have the gift of prophecy', says St. Paul, 'and know all mysteries and all knowledge? and have no love, it profits me nothing' (I Cor. 13:2-3). He who possesses love possesses God Himself, for 'God is love' (I Jn. 4:8). To Him be glory throughout the ages. Amen.

Who is content with nothing possesses all things.

It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.

The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses.

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

The best among all is one who possesses God's love no matter what religion he belongs to.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

Oakmont possesses all the charm of a sock to the head.

True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.

The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.

Is it man that possesses love, or is it not much rather love that possesses man?

No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.

Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

Whoever possesses God is happy.

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.