Top 1200 Valuable Possessions Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

The use of our possessions shows us up for what we actually are.

The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.

By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.

I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.

Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.

The only leverage the manufacturer can apply to the retailer is his relationship with the consumer. And the main element in profit growth is going to have to lie in making his brand more valuable to the retailer, through its being more valuable to the consumer. And that means his brand must be unique, it must have no adequate direct substitutes - because it is in this, after all, that value lies.

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

All the possessions in the world cannot fill an empty heart with love.

We all mouth the fact that material possessions don't make you happy but we still pursue them.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

When we put people before possessions in our hearts, we are sowing seeds of enduring satisfaction.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.

Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

God doesn't want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

Easy climb, Kurokuma. You do it easily.' 'Not on your life,' Horace said... 'That's what we have Rangers for. They climb up sheer rock walls and crawl along narrow, slippery ledges. I'm a trained warrior, and I'm far to valuable to risk such shenanigans.' 'We're not valuable?' Will said, feigning insult. Horace looked at him. 'We've got two of you. We can always afford to lose one,' he said firmly.

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary. There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race. There is a cultural diversity that's very valuable, and it's valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.

One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.

I think relationships are more valuable than anything - in not just music, but any kind of business - if you can be a good, honest person who keeps your word and works hard, and by practising and getting good, you develop your skills, then you have a lot of opportunity to succeed, because you'll have all these people out there to support you. If you have those relationships, then doors open for you, and that's really valuable.

I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

Your solution for a customer has to be either amazingly valuable to someone who will pay an enormous amount of money for it or has to be valuable to an enormous number of people who pay a small amount. And also the person you're talking to-especially if you want to raise capital or raise support-has to personally say, "I want that. I like that. That sounds really great. I want that for myself."

Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.

If we are guided to give up our possessions, it will be a positive thing for us.

We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

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

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

Most of us seem to be buried under our own possessions, and it seems to be getting worse.

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.

But you can't be possessed by your possessions. Those are just things.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they do to valuable natural resources?! Have you seen a strip mine? Have you seen a clear cut in the forest? Have you seen a polluted river? Don't ever let them call you a valuable natural resource! They're going to strip mine your soul. They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist, because the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked!

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.

In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.

Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.

These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.

People's most prized possessions carry deeply symbolic and emotional significance.

We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.

You are not defined by your possessions, looks, or popularity. You are made in God's image.

I'm proud of my ability to understand what somebody else is trying to do and help them achieve it, because part of the aesthetic of improvisation is service. You never say no. Serve the servant, follow the follower. And that's very valuable in your life, as well as very valuable in your actor's work. I'm damn proud of my ability to help other people achieve their ideas.

Our children are the only possessions we can take to heaven.

In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that. Then she wondered if it were vain and stupid to think so well of herself. When had it even been a guarantee to be valuable? Wasn't all history full of the destruction of precious things? Wasn't it much more probable that if one were fine one would suffer?

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.