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Quotes About Ownership

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.
~ Dodie Smith
What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. [Lat., Quod tuum'st meum'st; omne meum est autem tuum.]
~ Plautus
Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
~ Jonathan Swift
The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.
~ Andy Borowitz
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
~ Oscar Wilde
A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.
~ George Carlin
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
~ H. L. Mencken
MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out!
~ Ernest K. Gann
It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.
~ Tom Petty
You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are... BE YOURSELF, LIVE AT YOUR OWN PACE... ACCEPT YOUR MISTAKES AND LEARN... IT'S LIFE!
~ Unknown
If you're wrong, own up to what you didn't do right. That's how you learn and earn respect.
~ Unknown
Placing effort in denying to assume responsibility is often more of a burden than just actually assuming the responsibility.
~ Unknown
When you've done something wrong, admit it and be sorry. No one in history has ever choked to death from swallowing his pride.
~ Unknown
Forget excuses, learn to admit that that you messed up and made a mistake.
~ Unknown
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
~ Thomas Sowell
There are only a few things that truly belong to me: Who I am, who I was, and who I want to be.
~ Unknown
Your destiny is not for someone else to manage it is your destiny.
~ Unknown
Every man is his own man. You can be dependent but only up to a certain extent. Never blame anyone when things fail because eventually you're your own man and the consequences are part of your actions... self determined or or by another party.
~ Unknown
Awesome people dont make excuses or blame others for their own failures, mistakes or letdowns. They stand by their decisions and make adjustments not excuses
~ Unknown
Get UP and change your OWN LIFE. Stop waiting for someone else to walk into your life, and change it for you.
~ Unknown
If it is to be, it is up to me.
~ Unknown
Never blame others for anything as you are solely responsible for everything that has happened and the things that will happen.
~ Unknown
Someone can pressure you into something but you make the final decision. No one to blame but yourself.
~ Unknown