Top 301 Possessing Quotes & Sayings

We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.

To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

Ordinarily, even when people become religious, they go on thinking in terms of having - possessing heaven or possessing the pleasures of heaven - but still they go on thinking in terms of having. Their heaven is nothing but their projected desire of having everything. All that they have missed here they would like to have in the after-life. But it is the same desire.

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

Possessing faith is not convenient. You still have to live it.

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.

Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.

Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.

Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.

We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Art is a way of possessing destiny.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings

As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

That man is out of reach of harm in this life, who is sure of possessing heaven in the next. This is the portion of every believer.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed; Lay that on your heart, My young angry dear; This truth, this hard and precious stone, Lay it on your hot cheek, Let it hide your tear. Hold it like a crystal When you are alone And gaze in the depths of the icy stone. Long, look long and you will be blessed: No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.

What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.

Sanctification is possessing the mind of Christ.

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

Possessing best musical equipment has always been my craze.

Leaving aside handguns and hunting weapons, what's the justification for possessing an AR-15-style weapon?

Guns in America have an atavistic force. Possessing them, or the act of not possessing them, is an identity that seems to pass from father to son.

The joy is not in experiencing a scarce commodity but in possessing it.

Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.