Quotes About Ownership

Mistakes are made, apologies are made, decisions are made, excuses are made, and now your best is made... lie in it.

The world could be a lot better if people correct their own mistakes rather than criticizing others.

Time is priceless. You have it, but you don't own it. You spend it, but you can't keep it. And once it's gone, there's no getting it back. Use it wisely!

Live your life before it lives you.

We aren't perfect, nobody is, but if you want to make amends, don't make excuses, make apologies...

Growth is more about asking than telling. The way forward is yours for the taking, the way forward is yours for the asking.

The winners are those who learn to take full responsibility for their actions. The losers are those who blame others for their failures.

When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen!

Don't let anyone else hold your pen if you are writing your story.

One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own? - Luke 16:10-12

If you are that upset with it being used by people not of color, stop using it yourself.

Success isn't about your bank account, it isn't about what you own, Success is how you deal and cope with everyday challenges and its your Character that shines, leading you to Success.

You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.

Le désir fleurit, la possession flétrit toutes choses

C'est toujours l'attachement à l'objet qui entraine la mort du possesseur

I shall see myself that Morel is mine." This unmistakeableness in the eyes of everyone, in his own eyes, made M. de Charlus happiest of all. For the possession of what one loves is a joy greater than love itself.

i tuoi romanzi ... sono sempre rimasti in camera da letto, umilmente, accanto a te; li prendevi in prestito oppure, quando li compravi, li regalavi subito, desiderosa com'eri di passare ad altri il piacere di quelle letture. ... (pagina 78)

Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.

Every day as it comes should be welcomed and reduced forthwith into our own possession as if it were the finest day imaginable. What flies past has to be seized at.

Siquid desit in annum, uti paretur: quae supersint, ut veneant: quae opus sint locato, locentur: quae opera fieri velit et quae locari velit, uti imperet et ea scripta relinquat... Patrem familias vendacem, non emacem esse oportet.

back when they had been teenagers who thought love was a noun, a thing you could possess.

When we read a book, though, we call it ours, don't we, and I have always said that's because readers make a book their own through reading it. They do half the work, with their own imaginations, fleshing things out, painting each character and place and event in more detail than we have actually set out on paper, and we writers merely set the readers on their way.

and after all, if I really wanted the bay to stay totally untouched, I wouldn't be living here myself, would I?" said her mother's voice out in the kitchen. I'd live in the city, and just enjoy the idea of the bay, pure and untouched between bare hills. But we built this house didn't we? We dug into the slope and levelled the space and poured the concrete foundations.

If you can't afford it, you can't have it.