(842 quotes found)
“Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“I am a Cherokee and it's the proudest little possession I ever hope to have.”
Will Rogers
“If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.”
Dale Carnegie
“No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better.”
William James
“A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.”
François de la Rochefoucauld
“Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.”
Carl Sandburg
“Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.”
John Randolph
“Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.”
Isocrates
“Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.”
Mort Sahl
