Possession Quotes - Page 26

• The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

  Booker T. Washington

  Character, Rights, Political

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “A Will to Be Free”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• The best illustration I can give of his talent is that at Manchester United there was always a possession drill in training designed to develop our passing ability, which might be three players against another three players, or six versus six, or nine versus nine. But no matter what the numbers were, the side with Paul Scholes on their team would always win by keeping the most possession.

  Gary Neville

  Team, Player, Winning

  "Scholes is simply the best English player of his generation". www.dailymail.co.uk. September 15, 2012.

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• 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.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Fate, Moments, Materials

  Jessie Alford Nunn, Robert J. Donovan, Eddie Rickenbacker, Leland Stowe, James Albert Michener (1966). “Four complete true adventures”

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• The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry.

  Hillel the Elder

  Worry, Flesh, Worms

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• Conditions have changed, but we are still operating financially by the rules established during the Industrial Revolution-rules based on creating more material possessions. But our high standard of living has not led to a high quality of life-for us or for the planet.

  Joseph R. Dominguez

  Creating, Quality, Revolution

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• The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Race, Use, Earth

  Catholic Church. Pope (1878-1903 : Leo XIII)., Pope Leo XIII (1987*). “On the Condition of Workers”

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• The possession of a true testimony is the most valuable possession that one could have. It gives one knowledge, the hope and assurance that one, through obedience, can be a partaker of all the promised blessings.

  Marion G. Romney

  Blessing, Giving, Obedience

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• O Mother of God! If I place my confidence in thee, I shall be saved; if I am under thy protection, I have nothing to fear; for the fact of being thy client is a possession of a certainty of salvation which God grants only to those whom He intends to save.

  John of Damascus

  Mother, Facts, Clients

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• When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, then we shall look back to pains and sufferings and then we will see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory. Our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome-home to heaven.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Brother, Pain, Home

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• There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.

  Meister Eckhart

  Giving Up, Honor, Half

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• Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Passion, Blessing, Men

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• A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Russia, Growth, Suffering

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Illusion, Pursuit, Disillusion

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms.

  Jenny Han

  Love Is, Exorcism, Letters

  Jenny Han (2011). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Feet, Mind

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• I think that every town should have a park, or rather a primitive forest, of five hundred or a thousand acres, either in one body or several, where a stick would never be cut for fuel, not for the navy, not to make wagons, but stand and decay for higher uses - a common possession for instruction and recreation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cutting, Thinking, Should Have

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• Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Sheep, May

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• The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection. Having got the plants, the great thing is to use them with careful selection and definite intention.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Garden, Numbers, Doe

  Gertrude Jekyll (1964). “On Gardening”

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• I've been watching Messi for some time now, and his ability to decide games and keep possession of the ball is amazing.

  Kobe Bryant

  Games, Messi, Balls

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• When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.

  John Stott

  Jesus, Jobs, Home

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• Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Struggle, Past, Simple

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• Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This sets the chief mission for the city of the future: that of creating a visible regional and civic structure, designed to make man at home with his deeper self and his larger world, attached to images of human nature and love.

  Lewis Mumford

  Home, Men, Creating

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• A bloody and complete victory has sometimes yielded no more than the possession of the field and the loss of ten thousand men has sometimes been sufficient to destroy, in a single day, the work of ages.

  Edward Gibbon

  Loss, Men, Victory

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.1695, Delphi Classics

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• During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

  Gloria Steinem

  Attitude, Violence, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Country, Children, Museums

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