Thoughts of Possession Quotes in English

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

Karl von Humboldt

Some men are born to own; can animate all their possessions. Others cannot; Their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character; they seem to steal their own dividends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterelize the person one loves.

Albert Camus

Nobody has ever looked at me the way he’s looking at me at this moment. Like I’m his possession. Like if anyone else were to touch me, he’d break both their legs and an arm for good measure.

- A. Zavarelli

The belief in Limitation is the basis of all jealousy, and jealousy leads to Possession. Possession is the idea that you must hold tightly to that which you love or it might escape. In truth, it does not escape. It loses its value to the holder and often creates contempt. True power attracts the sweet pleasure of liberation within the harmony of love.

- Deborah Bravandt

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.

Peace Pilgrim

The belongings people accumulate throughout their lives will always own them. People seem to think if they had more they'd be happier or freer, but their possessions only chain them to the earth.

Sarah Noffke

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

Robert Reich

What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love? And why do we become such jerks when we do? We've all been there. You want something, you possess it - and by possessing it, you lose it.

Louis Chunovic

Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.

Peter Prange

Possession Quotes List

We possess nothing certainly except the past.

- Possession Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

- Andre Gide

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

- A Quotation From Albert Einstein

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

- Possession Quotes by Bruce Lee

The things you own end up owning you.

Chuck Palahniuk Quotation

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Leonardo da Vinci

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

- Pliny the Younger

Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries.

- Hannah Rothschild

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

John Ruskin

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

- Irvin D. Yalom

Values that people possess are worth more than material possession.

Sunday Adelaja

The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing.

- Chris Matakas

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

Love is about giving freedom and power, not about gaining control or possession.

- Jeffrey Fry

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The lawmakers possess the authority that commands the obedience of the people.

- Sunday Adelaja

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith *

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

John Lennon

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.

- Charles Hart

If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.

- Rachel Naomi Remen

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Gerge Meredith

When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.

- F.H. Bradley

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.

Stephen R. Covey

Fifty percent of something is better than one hundred percent of nothing.

Chuck Barris

Possession means to sit astride the world instead of having it astride of you.

Charles Kingsley

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Pliny The Younger

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

- Jared Diamond

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

Anonymous

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

Jackie Robinson

We think that by possessing talent or beauty we possess something, but we are the ones who are possessed.

- Marty Rubin

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Andre Gide

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

George Minot

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

Pearl Buck

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

Jared Diamond

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?

Natalie Clifford Barney

He that sets not his heart on what he possesses, forsaketh all things, though he keep his possessions.

Francis Quarles

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how how happy those are who already possess it.

- Possession Thoughts by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download or Share

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

- Marcel Proust Download or Share

Possession is eleven points in the law.

- Possession Quotes by Colley Cibber Download or Share

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

- John Ruskin Download or Share

To have little is to possess.
To have plenty is to be perplexed.

- Lao-tzu Download or Share

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

- Vida D. Scudder Download or Share

An object in possession seldom retains the same that it had in pursuit.

- Pliny the Younger Download or Share

The wise man carries his possessions within him.

Bisa Download or Share

The greatest treasure in life is the possession of time.

- Sunday Adelaja Download or Share

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

- Euripides Download or Share

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

- Terence Download or Share

Oh no." I said panic rising in my chest. "No, no, no, Somebody get a can opener. I've got a god in my head!

- Rick Riordan

When you have the power of time, you can take possession of your time, there is nothing you cannot become.

- Sunday Adelaja

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Anais Nin

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

Sherwood Anderson

Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.

- Peter Prange

Possession gives a right, so far as man is concerned, to unmolested enjoyment, unless someone else can establish a better title.

Francis Wayland

There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word.

Bill Courtney

Possessions are mere transient effects that come when they are required, and after their purpose has been served, pass away.

James Allen

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Max Planck

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Carlos Santana

Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become seriously ill.

- Eraldo Banovac Thoughts

To own something means that it is so small in stature and importance that it can be possessed. And I don’t know if there’s anything in life that’s really that small.

- Craig D. Lounsbrough Thought

Renee's self-possession, her ability to possess other selves, is a measure of the weakness of her husband, his inability to stop his own self from splitting in half.

- Greil Marcus

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The tragedy of life, Mitchell, happens because you can never have everything and because you will even lose the graces you have once possessed.

- Noha Alaa El-Din

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Andrew Carnegie

Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.

Baltasar Gracian

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

Thomas Aquinas

We do not attach ourselves permanently to any possessions, excepting in proportion to the trouble, toil and longing which they have cost us.

Honore de Balzac

When one has achieved the object of one's desires, it is evident that one's real desire was not the ignorant possession of the desired object but to know it as possessed - as actually contemplated, as within one.

- Plotinus

You are my own. You are my own. He had not meant the words in that way. He had been talking strictly about possession. But oh, the longing for his love was an unbearably painful ache in her.

- Mary Balogh

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

- Thomas Hardy