[ possess Quotes ]
Showing search results for Possess Quotes - 80 quotes about possess - Dictionary Quotes
80 quotesDignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Dignity
Aristotle
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 1183 votes
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Character
Aristotle
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 1140 votes
Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.
Love
Myrtle Auvil
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 849 votes
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Patience
Francis Bacon
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 707 votes
Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
Death and Dying
Hilaire Belloc
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 864 votes
A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [Luke 12:15]
Abundance
Bible
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 1255 votes
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Riches
Napoleon Bonaparte
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 724 votes
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Greed
Andre Breton
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 803 votes
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
Wives
Vera Brittain
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 744 votes
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.
Fulfillment
J. Brotherton
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 850 votes
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Truth
Sir Thomas Browne
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 768 votes
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Liberty
Edmund Burke
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 663 votes
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Words
Orson Scott Card
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 807 votes
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Courage
Dale Carnegie
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 754 votes
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
Language
Charlemagne
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 685 votes
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
Style
Edna W. Chase
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 757 votes
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Winston Churchill
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 709 votes
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Friends and Friendship
Marcus T. Cicero
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 740 votes
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Ideas
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 1132 votes
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
Enthusiasm
William Cowper
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 703 votes
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
Relationships
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 749 votes
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Happiness
Democritus
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 736 votes
All my possessions for a moment of time.
Time and Time Management
Queen Elizabeth
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 665 votes
The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
Farming and Farmers
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 599 votes
The wavering mind is but a base possession.
Mind
Euripides
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 564 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun