Top 689 Possessions Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
I've never been somebody who needs their car or other material, larger possessions to say something flashy about them.
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.
The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
We celebrate our intelligence, possessions, looks, talent, and achievements. Heaven celebrates how we used all of it.
Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.
What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
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?
I can't even drive a car. I don't have a driver's license. I have a rented apartment in New York. That's it. When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.
The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect.
The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
One of my prized possessions is still the prefect's tie that I got in this school. I keep it with me. It was the first leadership position I ever had.
The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible assumes and says.
Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions.
When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.
An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.
Growing up as the youngest daughter to immigrant parents, it was instilled in me from an early age to not be wasteful and to be respectful of money and possessions.
In all of my possessions, in all moments, whether hard or happy, I was accompanied by my dear wife, Lilly, who supported me wholeheartedly.
When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.
In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom
Our possessions are a trust from God. What we clutch tightly, we lose. What we place in His hands, we will possess.
The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.
A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.
It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.
We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.
A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.
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.
A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the most valuable and indispensable of all human possessions.
Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.
The Yanukovych regime is a mafia, which regularly threatens, imprisons, murders, or disappears political opponents as well as those whose possessions it covets.
Peace is worth more than all worldly possessions; in addition, God rewards it even in this life.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.
Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.
I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.
Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.
People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.
He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.
Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.
We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.
If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.
If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.
Everything we own really belongs to God, we are just renting it, and when we die those things are going to become somebody else's possessions.
