Quotes about Ownership
When you blame others you are trying to excuse yourself. When you make excuses you can't properly evaluate yourself. Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.
- John Wooden
The only way we have of influencing the future is to own the present, however we find it.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Keep in mind ... to a dog you are family to a cat you are staff.
- Anonymous
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
- Albert Ellis
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
- Toni Morrison
Your life is the fruit of your own doing you have no one to blame but your self
- Joseph Campbell
Do you find your identity in who you are or whose you are?
- Mark Batterson
We don't name God; God reveals His name to us. We don't have the right to exercise authority over God. God copyrights, He trademarks, He patents His name.
- Mark Driscoll