Quotes about Ownership

We are never so free as when we own our sacred serfdom...

It was not until I got sponsored at 12 that I finally owned a racket.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

The sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

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.

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.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.