Ownership Quotes

Decisions of character come from understanding that they are accountable to God only, not to family, spouses, religious leaders, corporations, public opinion or your own ego.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A real winner is the one who has the ability to find success by self; who chases success at his/her own will, and never gives a chance to attribute credit of his/her success to his/her referees. No matter how slow he/she goes; how painful are the financial issues; how long it takes to find self; and how likely he/she persevere, in the end, the fruits of success would give enough pleasure than the pleasure earned through references.

~ Ashish Patel

Don’t ever let your spouse or partner blame an outside person or persons for the ruin of your relationship or their past relationships. If two people are committed to one another then no one can change that.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Species tend to bite sometimes during the sharing of sex but we never break the skin. There are only two ways this usually happens. I had to bite you to assert my control if we fought for dominance during sex or because I wanted to mark you to show other males you belonged to me.” He blinked. “I am sorry. I lost control and I wanted to completely own you in that moment. I wanted all of you.

~ Laurann Dohner

Ladies, when you write a poem for Feminism because that is what we sometimes do, remember that it's never about them. It's only about you.

~ Danielle Valenilla

Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate hers, was ended almost immediately. She could not stand the thought of hands on her that presumed she belonged to them.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Oh, quit it! You're the possessor of a beautiful wife, a beautiful gas-stove, and you were going to forget all this race-hysteria.

~ Sinclair Lewis

The bankers and financiers are badly overplaying their hands, again, and people are starting to catch on to the scam.Real wealth is tangible things produced with tangible effort. Loans made out of thin-air 'money' require no effort and are entirely ephemeral. But if those loans are used to acquire real ownership of real assets, then something has been exchanged for nothing and one party is getting screwed.

~ Chris Martenson

If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you’re praying someone else will do for you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Ownership of words is the reason, only few of us truly keep and respect our words. If you won't keep yours, it's probably not yours.

~ Seun Ayilara

People take ownership of sickness and disease by saying things like MY high blood pressure MY diabetes, MY heart disease, MY depression, MY! MY! MY! Don't own it because it doesn't belong to you!

~ Stella Payton

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don’t have to learn.”Vokep shook his head grimly. “It’s the kids,” he said. “Having babies. Makes ’em propertarians. They won’t let go.” He sighed. “Touch and go, brother, that’s the rule. Don’t ever let yourself be owned.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

A book about books is like a poem about poetry:Books are knowledge, paid for, all.Readers - horses in a stall.Stallions should always run.Lest they stale become, in turn.Running waters are most clear.In some books, you disappear –lose yourself, and track of time.How I wish that one was mine...Mine, to have, to write, to read...Mine, just like a flying steed.Mine, forever, - to improve.Would I then, of me, approve?I would not, I can't... myself.I'm but dust, swept off a shelf.Fly, can I, just 'til I'm settled,down, beside my flower, petalled.

~ Will Advise

Life is forgiving and amazing. Embrace it. Cultivate it. Make it yours!

~ Amanda Mosher

Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and to express yourself and share your happiness with others.

~ Kaiden Blake

It's paramount we take ownership of our lives. Sadness is greatly due to our having sacrificed ourselves over to a power outside of ourselves. We need to be proactive in creating positive thoughts and actions that will align ourselves with where we want to be and what we want to feel in life.

~ Kaiden Blake

Though we are emotional beings, we are not our emotions. Remember this the next time you find yourself struggling.

~ Kaiden Blake

We don't blame your shadow for the shape of your body. Don't blame others for the shape of your experience.

~ Gillian Duce

Every true leader is in the business of God. The good news is that God’s business does not yield loses. Most leaders fail because they claim to be in a business whose owner they never know!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.

~ Ben Greenman

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

~ Leeann Taylor

Personal growth doesn’t occur without effort. The effort is one of recognizing your own power, and taking ownership and responsibility for your own development.

~ Farshad Asl

True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You will learn about the twinned natures of fate and faith, at times spun together in threads fine as cotton candy, that taste just as sweet and evaporate just as quick. It is not right to say that you will have her, because you cannot truly possess another person. Nor should you even want such a thing.

~ Trevor Dodge

Humility is the only thing that can restore a relationship, when respect has been lost.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Lack of ownership over your anger can incorrectly absolve you of all responsibility and so keep you stuck in the anger.

~ Sam Owen

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

A lie is the most sacred private property on Earth. Governments claim it is not theirs, and that their critics are the rightful owners.

~ Gustavo Gus Larsen

To own beauty is the first lie of it.

~ Chris Campanioni

I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.

~ Raymond Chandler

He who loves his job, will own it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Maybe when we stop looking at blessings as abundance we'll start appreciating the little we have.

~ Unarine Ramaru

The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.

~ James Carlos Blake

The USA government encourages gun ownership at the same time as they have allowed environmental radiation levels to become ridiculously high powered and this continues to increase annually. It will be interesting to see where this government experiment eventually takes the USA!

~ Steven Magee

I realized that we all have the ability to live in worlds of our own doing, to own what happens to us, and to shape our inner worlds with such a positive force that our outer worlds have no other choice but to conform.

~ Andrew Kendall