Quotes About Ownership

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it.

Every man's disease is his personal property.

Every man's actions belong to him.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].

Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle.

I forbid you to go." "I am not yours to forbid. Comfort your pride with your conquest!

Do not allow others to make your path for you. It is your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. Accept yourself and your actions. Own your thoughts. Speak up when wrong, and apologize. Know your path at all times. To do this you must know yourself inside and out, accept your gifts as well as your shortcomings, and grow each day with honesty, integrity, compassion, faith, and brotherhood.

Taking responsibility for where you are in life at this moment is your foundation for success. It means you accept responsibility for the things you do and the things you fail to do. Living an excuse-free life starts you on the pathway to success.

TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROBLEMS THAT ARE THE RESULT OF YOUR OWN BAD DECISIONS. DON'T DISPLACE THE BLAME.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Your life is your own. Rise up and live it.