Quotes about Ownership

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

The wish to have everything by one's own power is false pride. Even what one owes to others belongs nevertheless to oneself and is a piece of one's own life, and the desire to calculate what one has 'earned' on one's own and what one owes to others is surely not Christian and is a futile undertaking besides. With what one is in oneself and what one receives, a person is a whole.

The most general formulation of rights given with the natural is, in the words of Roman law, suum cuique, to each his own.

If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.

There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.

There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, 'Mine.'

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

Henry observed when commenting on Zephaniah 3:17, "The great God not only loves his saints, but he loves to love them." God takes great delight in loving us because we are His very own.

We can have everything. No, we can't. We can have the whole world. No, we can't. We can go everywhere. No, we can't. It isn't ours any more. Its ours. No, it isn't.

Until a person takes responsibility for where he is, there is no basis for moving on. The bad news is that the past was in your hands, but the good news is that the future, my friend, is also in your hands.

Life is like a game of Monopoly. You may own hotels on Boardwalk or you may be renting on Baltic Avenue. But in the end, it all goes back in the box. The next generation will be getting out all your stuff and playing with it or fighting over it.