Quotes About Ownership

Because we bear responsibility for our own actions alone. Not for anyone else's.

When everything goes wrong in our lives, it's natural to look around for someone -or something- to blame.

In modern life, people tend to think their bodies belong to them, that they can do anything they want to themselves. But your body is not only yours. Your body belongs to your ancestors, your parents, and future generations. It also belongs to society and to all the other living beings. The trees, the clouds, the soil, and every living thing brought about the presence of your body. We can eat with care, knowing we are caretakers of our bodies, rather than their owners.

no problem could be solved if individuals were not willing to address how they themselves were part of the problem.

Remember, the principle to apply is, as far as I am concerned, the problem is me. I am the place to start. Others' responses will depend mostly on what they see in me. The most important move is for me to make the most important move.

The most effective leaders lead in this single way: by holding themselves more accountable than all. Personal

sometimes it's easier to search for treasure than to find it, because finding it forces you to make decisions about what to do with it, and it makes you fear the reality of how hard it may be to keep it without becoming a slave to it!

Bücher haben Ehrgefühl. Wenn man sie verleiht, kommen sie nicht mehr zurück.

Should she stay? This was her house, after all. No, it was their house too. Let Beatrice stay—she did not have to be responsible for everything. Mary felt a sense of relief. There were others to share the responsibility now.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.

Your body is not just yours. It is a gift and a responsibility.

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it's important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.

I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.

I was thinking about getting a dog myself, but just one!

When I buy something, I do so with the intention of keeping it forever.

Everything that I write about is a kernel of something that probably happened to me or one of my writers that I've co-opted and made it seem like it's mine.

I think it was 'The Diary of Alicia Keys'. That was the first time album I ever bought with my own money. I had a little Discman.

I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

Each free kick carries my name, and all are my children. And they have South American roots.

If you go around the kitchen and ask my employees what they want to be doing in three to five years, most of them, if they're being honest, will tell you that they don't want to be working for me. They want to have their own place. And I think that's great.