Quotes about Ownership

If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.

Remember that you own what happened to you.

Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.

No, the real reason is this: Meetings are a great place to hide. Meetings are where we go to wait for someone else to take responsibility. Meetings are a safe haven, a refuge from what might happen.

Any man who, having planted a vineyard, has not yet reaped the benefits should do so at once, so that he does not die in the struggle and leave it for another to enjoy.

Life is not yours to take.

Take charge of your life or someone else will!

We have more guns in our country than citizens. I think we could with maybe 100 million fewer guns. And I think we'd be OK.

We don't ask what a woman does; we ask whom she belongs to.

He loved also to think, I did it! And I believe the only people who are free from that weakness are those who have no work to call their own.

Infringe upon the rights of no one. Borrow no tool but what you will return according to promise. Take no wood, nor anything else but what belongs to you - and if you find anything that is not your own, do not hide it away, but report it, that the owner may be found.

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.