Possessions

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.

- Albert Einstein Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

- Benjamin Disraeli Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

- Napoléon Bonaparte Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I believe that every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation, every possession, a duty.

- John (Jay) Davison Rockefeller, IV Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

- Kahlil Gibran Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

- Anthony J. D'Angelo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Wealth is not only what you have, but it is also what you are.

- Sterling W. Sill Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lackd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.

- William Shakespeare Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Gaius Plinius Caecilius Second Pliny, the Younger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

How many are the things I can do without

- Socrates Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

- Sara Teasdale Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

- John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Andre Gide Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A land without ruins is a land without memories-a land without memories is a land without history.

- Abram Joseph Ryan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The only active force that arises out of possession is fear of losing the object of possession.

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Our most valuable possessions are those which can be shared without lesseningthose which, when shared, multiply. Our least valuable possessions, on the other hand, are those which, when divided, are diminished.

- William H. Danforth Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Natalie Clifford Barney Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You are what you think, not what you think you are.

- Unknown Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes