Possession Quotes

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.

Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed.

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.

I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.