Quotations
Quotes:
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
View quotes by Robert Burns
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
View quotes by Duc De La Rochefoucauld
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. - Eunuchus
View quotes by Terence
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
View quotes by Louisa May Alcott
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
View quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
View quotes by Josh Billings
I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.
View quotes by Elizabeth Taylor
All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must possess if we are to face the future as finishers.
View quotes by Henry David Thoreau
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
View quotes by Jean Paul Sartre
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
View quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
View quotes by E M Forster
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
View quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.
View quotes by Baltasar Gracian
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
View quotes by James Madison
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
View quotes by Henri Matisse
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
View quotes by Andre Maurois
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
View quotes by A Philip Randolph
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
View quotes by Billy Graham
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
View quotes by Dylan Thomas
Proverbs:
Possessions Dwindle; I Mourn Their Loss But I Mourn The Loss Of Time Much More, For Anyone Can Save His Purse, But None Can Win Back Lost Time
Possessions Dwindle; I Mourn Their Loss But I Mourn The Loss Of Time Much More, For Anyone Can Save His Purse, But None Can Win Back Lost Time
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