Top 100 You Possess Quotes
#1. Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily?
Epictetus
#2. Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
Viktor E. Frankl
#3. You are judged of by what you possess.
Horace
#4. The independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint efforts and common dangers, sufferings, and successes.
George Washington
#5. When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.
Paulo Coelho
#6. Once you recognize the power you possess, and the gifts and talents that have been bestowed upon you, you will be well on your way to becoming who you were created to be and living a life full of rewards and purpose.
Dwaun S. Cox
#8. I want to be your wife, your lover, your mate for life. I want to feel you inside me, to be one with you, to bear your children, to possess you as you possess me, to touch you as often as I wish, and to feel you quicken in my grasp. I need you ... most desperately.
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
#10. Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer.
Sunday Adelaja
#11. I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away, ephemeral. That must be difficult.
Gail Honeyman
#13. If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#14. It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.
Gail Tsukiyama
#15. Help those who make mistakes; your feet walk on the same ground, and even if you possess the possibility to correct them, you have no right to censure them.
Chico Xavier
#16. You possess every part of me, Olivia Taylor. For all of the wrongs I have done and all that I am yet to do, I'm asking for your mercy.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#17. After your friendship with God, your wife's friendship is the greatest treasure you possess.
Jim George
#18. If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If you possess any power or authority, you must strive to use it to help and empower the powerless.
Craig Murray
#19. Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft,
wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
Rumi
#20. What you dream, you desire.
What you desire, you pursue.
What you pursue, you possess.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#21. That's the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.
Ella Leya
#22. When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!
Watchman Nee
#23. A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.
Jenny Offill
#26. I'm a man. Why would you expect anything else? We're meant to be easy and predictable. You are woman. You possess what we seek. We cannot afford to confuse your minds if we are to attain what we seek. Therefore, we elect to be easy and predictable.
Jack Dancer
#27. There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.
Luis Marques
#28. By "love" people mean a certain kind of monopoly, some possessiveness, without understanding a simple fact of life: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed that person. Life
Osho
#29. Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it.
Ann Wigmore
#30. Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
Thomas Carlyle
#31. I will find you," Ragnor told him. "I will find whatever chest of absurd clothes you have. And I will bring a llama into the place where you sleep and make sure that it urinates on everything you possess.
Cassandra Clare
#32. The character you possess during the drought is what your team will remember during the harvest.
Jon Gordon
#33. This next nugget of salesmanship cannot be perfected in a single afternoon. However, once you have it mastered, your competition will continuously believe you possess some mystical customer attracting formula
Chris Murray
#34. Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to a stimulus.
Virginia Postrel
#35. And by being possessed, you possess, because that's how love works.
Patrick Ness
#36. The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.
Blaise Pascal
#37. And that for every negative event or coincidence that has happened since, imagining that you triggered them, that you made them happen makes you feel like you possess a degree of control that you don't have.
Michelle Hodkin
#38. You possess the (pro.pen.si.ty), propensity to become one of the great success stories.
Jon Jones
#40. I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.
Sarah McLachlan
#41. Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.
Louis C.K.
#42. Success is not something that must be deserved or earned. It is more an inherent right - an inherent responsibility. The only qualification for success is that you be you, that you utilize whatever combination of talent you possess to the fullest extent possible.
Og Mandino
#43. The Claw smiled. You have begun to learn, Paran. Never be too easy with the knowledge you possess. Words are like coin - it pays to hoard.
Steven Erikson
#44. Riches are not only measured by money but the wisdom and knowledge you possess.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#45. No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.
Alan Bradley
#46. What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.
Elizabeth Bibesco
#48. It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.
Annie Dillard
#49. While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.
Henry Rollins
#50. Remind yourself daily that someone somewhere is happy with less than you possess.
Maddy Malhotra
#51. Do you know what morals are Violet? They're other people's rules. Do you know what a conscience is? Freedom to use your own intelligence to determine what is right or wrong. You possess that freedom and no one can remove it from you
Amy Tan
#52. There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing?
Frank Herbert
#54. I've watched you barely escape death several times, and each instance killed me a little inside. They may be dormant now, but we have enemies both cunning and cruel. Knowing you possess the power to defeat most of them doesn't threaten me, luv. It relieves me to my very core.
Jeaniene Frost
#55. Beware of thinking all your own that you possess, and of living accordingly. It is a mistake that many people who have credit fall into.
Max Weber
#56. Inherent power you possess as part of yourself. Granted power is lent or given by other people.
Patrick Rothfuss
#57. What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Henry Van Dyke
#58. You cannot possess all and everything. Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.
Rajneesh
#59. Whatever you possess today is enough to create anything else you will ever want in your future.
Mike Murdock
#60. This is going to be a hard task for you, first to attain and then to lose - because you can lose only something which you possess. If you don't possess it, how can you lose it?
Rajneesh
#61. Life is ultimate. The more skills you possess the more productive, successful and happy you will be.
Kishore Bansal
#62. You possess a unique, innate ability to see most aspects of most situations all at once!
Rosemary Breen
#63. In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali
#64. you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess." "My
Alexandre Dumas
#65. Another consequence of not knowing the value of what you possess in this case the value of life is that, there would be some other people around you that will better understand what you possess.
Sunday Adelaja
#66. At some point on your road you have to turn and start walking back towards yourself. Or the past will pursue you, and bite the nape of your neck, leave you bleeding in the ditch. Better to turn and face it with such weapons as you possess.
Hilary Mantel
#67. How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#68. You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
J. Martin Kohe
#69. The human mind resents control. The ordinary human hypnotist cannot hypnotize a person against his will for that reason. I can, because I'm not a hypnotist, and, believe me, Pritcher, the resentment that you cannot show and do not even know you possess is something I wouldn't want to face." Pritcher
Isaac Asimov
#70. If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#71. The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.
Walter Scott
#72. Whatever you possess as an advantage over others, must be meticulously executed to produce desired results and progress.
Archibald Marwizi
#73. It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Jane Austen
#74. If you want to possess things - money; if you want to possess yourself - meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning.
Rajneesh
#75. The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous question whether you possess the power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union
James Buchanan
#76. A genuine teacher does not seek to impress you with their greatness, but instead to impress upon you that you possess the skills to discover your own.
Charles F. Glassman
#77. You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.
John C. Maxwell
#78. True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.
Albert Camus
#79. What an enormous chutzpah you possess," I told him. "What makes you better than the rest of us, and more fit to rule?" "The fact that I was able to occupy the throne," he replied. "Try and take it.
Roger Zelazny
#80. Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#81. You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#82. I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind.
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
#83. It's noble to be skilled, but ultimately people pay for solutions your skills can provide not the skills you possess
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#84. What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
Andre Gide
#85. You possess an intuitive intelligence so powerful it can
help you heal, relieve stress, and find emotional freedom
Judith Orloff
#86. What you believe is more important than what you possess. What you live is more lasting than what you profess. Whom you inspire is more significant than whom you impress.
William Arthur Ward
#87. You have control over three things - what you think, what you say, and how you behave. To make a change in your life, you must recognize that these gifts are the most powerful tools you possess in shaping the form of your life.
Sonia Friedman
#88. Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm Cowley
#89. If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#91. Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much care the less; but try to obtain what you need in life, and make the best of every moment of your life.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#92. Nature gives you the face you possess at twenty . . . Life the face you possess at thirty. But the face you have at fifty is the face you deserve.
Karleen Koen
#93. Love is Noise.
Love is silence.
In love you're human.
In love you possess magical powers.
In love you shelter yourself.
In love, you expose yourself.
Nicholas Mosley
#94. You want me to say yes four times?
God. What do you do when the man you love asks you something?
You say yes.
Four times yes.
What do you do when a Saint loves you?
You love him with all that you possess.
What do you do when Sin comes calling?
You do him.
Katy Evans
#95. If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.
Seneca.
#96. If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it ... it possesses you.
Frank Sinatra
#98. If you must use your hands, use them with all the strength you possess ... If you choose to strike, by all means strike hard.
Jeff Cooper
#99. You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
Al-Ghazali
