Quotes about Ownership
My actions are my only true belongings.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
What I have given, I can take away and restore when it pleases Me. What I give remains Mine, and thus when I take it away I take nothing that is yours, for every good gift and every perfect gift is Mine.
- Thomas a Kempis
It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The rich do not act improperly if they before others take possession of property that was in the beginning common and share the property with others. But the rich sin if they indiscriminately prevent others from using the property.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!
- Charles Dickens
In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
- James Madison
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
- Thomas Jefferson
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
- Thomas Merton
No one else can live your life for you. No one else can succeed for you!
- Og Mandino
There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.
- Oprah Winfrey