Possession Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old possession quotes, possession sayings, and possession proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Possession means to sit astride the world instead of having it astride of you. Charles Kingsley
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
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. Alexander Smith
We possess nothing certainly except the past. Evelyn Waugh
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
Values that people possess are worth more than material possession. Sunday Adelaja
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. John Ruskin
Possession gives a right, so far as man is concerned, to unmolested enjoyment, unless someone else can establish a better title. Francis Wayland
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. Sophocles
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
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
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
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. Pliny The Younger
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
Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing. Stephen R. Covey
Understand that the only possession of any value is life. Andre Gide
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. Anonymous
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

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