| "We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess." »Mark Twain |
| "If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him." »Francis Bacon |
| "We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "I have everything, yet have nothing and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want." »Terence |
| "To have little is to possess. To have plenty is to be perplexed." »Lao Tzu |
| "He does not possess wealth it possesses him." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "To find something you can enjoy is far better than finding something you can possess." »Glenn Holm |
| "Whatever we possess becomes of double value When we have the opportunity of sharing it with others." »Bouilly |
| "Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess." »Karl Kraus |
| "Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| "This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess." »Rainer Maria Rilke |
| "Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it." »Michel Eyquem de Montaigne |
| "Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire." »Anwar el Sadat |
| "Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility." »George Orwell |
| "All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price." »Juvenal |
| "Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away." »Dag Hammarskjld |
| "The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it." »Lord Macaulay |
| "You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality." »Florida Scott-Maxwell |
| "Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel." »George Santayana |
| "Be entirely tolerant or not at all follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess." »Heinrich Heine |
| "I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement." »Charles Schwab |
| "Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess." »Rene Descartes |
| "No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth Enjoy the good fortune you still possess." »I Ching |
| "Use what talent you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." »Henry Van Dyke |
| "You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does." »Dag Hammarskjld |
| "I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that ... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't , matters not one jot. The possibility is always there." »Monica Baldwin |
| "Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake." »E. M. Forster |
| "I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true." »Arsenio Hall |
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