Top 1200 Valuable Possessions Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

Peace is worth more than all worldly possessions; in addition, God rewards it even in this life.

In all of my possessions, in all moments, whether hard or happy, I was accompanied by my dear wife, Lilly, who supported me wholeheartedly.

Even the poorest in Israel are looked upon as freemen who have lost their possessions, for they are the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it. In other words, any information is valuable to the degree that you can make it yours. Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place. It is not only the science of life, but it is an account of what you were doing before you forgot what you were doing.

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

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.

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.

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.

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

Our possessions are a trust from God. What we clutch tightly, we lose. What we place in His hands, we will possess.

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.

Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.

The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.

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.

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 is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

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.

An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

All our pleasures and possessions are consigned to oblivion, but the legacy we leave for Christ will endure forever.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

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.

Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.

A war film can be propaganda and they're very valuable as propaganda, as we realized in Britain in the Second World War. Film as propaganda is a very valuable tool. It can also demonize, which is the dangerous side of a war film as propaganda. But there are war films that are not propaganda. It's just saying 'This is what it's like.' For 99 percent of us we don't know what it's like. We have no idea. So to reveal that to the audience is powerful.

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.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

The NFL culture, the sports culture, has decided that they are more valuable than women. I've heard people laugh about keeping their pimp hand strong and keeping her in control so that she knows her place. But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he's actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable.

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?

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't time to teach them in medical school. They don't really learn how to approach a problem, and yet diagnosis is a problem; and I think that year spent in research is extremely valuable to them.

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.

I've never been somebody who needs their car or other material, larger possessions to say something flashy about them.

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.

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.

Breaking up: It's so easy to return their possessions, but so hard to get our brain cells back.

We celebrate our intelligence, possessions, looks, talent, and achievements. Heaven celebrates how we used all of it.

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.

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.

A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions.

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.

For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

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.

Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.

We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.