Quotes About Ownership

I have an open-door policy when it comes to blame.

The prince raised his head. "I will never serve you. You have defeated me, but you will never own me." He owed these words to those who had died for him. He owed the words to himself. To be destroyed was one thing. At least he had not surrendered.

And the warrior's way was not to run from failure, but to own up to it and do better.

Owning things of value is secondary to creating things of value where none once existed.

Oh, my lord, I know it, I do." The beggar laughed. "I own the place, technically. Now, regarding those coins for old Hoid, my good lord…

But the sky and the winds are mine. I claim them, as I now claim your life.

You will be surprised how much more profitable an independent man is than a slave who thinks of nothing more than his next meal.

They all want to be involved, but nobody wants to be responsible

Her personal studies proved that crime went down when people had a sense of identity with and ownership of their community.

Technically, I was a part owner of that noodle shop. What? Renowned interdimensional storytellers can't invest in a little real estate now and then?)

You cannot have my pain.

Perhaps you've owned something in your life to which you ascribed particular pleasure. A treasured toy, perhaps. Some photographs. The steel skull of your archnemesis. Now

Yes, intellectuals and scholars are paid to think deep thoughts—but those thoughts are often owned by others. It is a great irony that society tends to look down on those who sell their bodies, but not on those who lease out their minds. As Tress set the final flare in the row, Huck trailed

This isn't your prison. This is mine.

The fact that the entire globe now operates according to the same economic princi­ples—­production or­ga­nized for profit using legally ­free wage labor and mostly privately owned capital, with decentralized coordination—is without historical pre­ce­dent.

But what we know now is that when we deny our emotion, it owns us. When we own our emotion, we can rebuild and find our way through the pain.

When we own our stories, we avoid being trapped as characters in stories someone else is telling.

When we deny our stories and disengage from tough emotions, they don't go away; instead, they own us, they define us.

We either own our stories (even the messy ones), or we stand outside of them—denying our vulnerabilities and imperfections, orphaning the parts of us that don't fit in with who/what we think we're supposed to be, and hustling for other people's approval of our worthiness. Perfectionism is exhausting because hustling is exhausting. It's a never-ending performance.

The power of owning our stories, even the difficult ones, is that we get to write the ending.

Very few people can handle being held accountable without rationalizing, blaming, or shutting down;

Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection.

Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life—is the source from which self-respect springs. —Joan Didion

If we can learn how to feel our way through these experiences and own our stories of struggle, we can write our own brave endings. When we own our stories, we avoid being trapped as characters in stories someone else is telling.