Quotes About Ownership

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?

Don't make the mistake of thinking that your soul is an island, Ash. It's as much a part of the continent as your body is. It is immune to being bought and sold because the original owner will not release the title.

I'm sorry to pull you out of your classes, but your adviser understands," Kitteredge said. "He's a friend of the family." So that's it, Neal thought. You bought me; you own me.

You are personally responsible for everything in your life, once you become aware that you are personally responsible for everything in your life.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Let every man be master of his time.

If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

Until you take ownership for your life, you will always be chasing happiness.

Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

No thought lives in your head rent-free.

Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.

Whose life is it, anyway?

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

The only thing missing from your life is what you're failing to bring to it.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.