Top 45 Most Precious Possession Quotes
#1. Most of the time, perhaps 99 percent of the time, the defendant is guilty; his screams are the final protest of a human being about to lost his most precious possession, his freedom.
Elizabeth F. Loftus
#2. My religion is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for church work has been a vital counterbalance in my life.
George W. Romney
#3. And last," Ms. Baginski carried on. "My most precious possession, the thing I treasure above anything else in this world, that being my granddaughter, Josephine Diana Malone, I hereby bequeath to James Markham Spear.
Kristen Ashley
#4. A man's most precious possession is the woman who walks by his side.
M. Never
#5. For most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country. That endowment is being bartered away by our elites in exchange for votes, for profits, or for campaign dollars.
Ann Coulter
#6. Environment grinds us, forces us to adjust, and
consciously or not
kills our most precious possession: that something which enables us to speak with ourselves and with God.
Mieczyslaw Jastrun
#7. Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.
Dale Carnegie
#8. Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.
Robert Muller
#9. 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
#10. How glorious and near to the angels is youth that is clean. This youth has joy unspeakable here and eternal happiness hereafter. Sexual purity is youth's most precious possession. It is the foundation of all righteousness.
Harold B. Lee
#11. The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
J.G. Holland
#12. Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.
Gautama Buddha
#13. The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.
Thomas Carlyle
#14. Man, I want to die, is all," cried Ploy.
"Don't you know," said Dahoud, "that life is the most precious possession you have?
Thomas Pynchon
#15. At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.
Benny Carter
#16. Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors ...
Joseph Conrad
#17. In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.
John Bright
#18. Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#19. The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
Mark Twain
#20. The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#21. Guard your integrity as if it's your most precious leadership possession, because that is what it is.
David Cottrell
#22. Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
Alain De Botton
#23. And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories?
Rainer Maria Rilke
#24. Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#26. I have a palate, Williams. A precious possession. And I have no intention of prostituting it to pickles.
Josephine Tey
#27. If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
Alexander Smith
#28. A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?
Christa Wolf
#29. A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#30. His pain was his most precious and secret possession, and Six held on to it as fiercely as a jewel robbed from a corpse.
Ayana Mathis
#31. An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Felix Adler
#32. The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.
John Locke
#33. Life is a precious possession ... It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan
Mary Balogh
#34. The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#35. He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.
Nicolas Bentley
#36. The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind
Theodorus Gaza
#37. In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
Phyllis Schlafly
#38. Living creatures, if nothing else, have the right to life. It is their only truly precious possession, and the stealing of life is a wicked theft
Jack Vance
#39. Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.
Brian Tracy
#41. How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
Thomas Jefferson
#42. See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
William Dean Howells
#43. Oh how warm it makes one to know that there is one person in the world to whom one is everything. A lover is the most precious, the most marvelous possession.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#44. It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving," he explained, "and every man may take comfort from the fine saying that the search for truth is more precious than its possession."70
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
#45. There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.
Marcel Proust
