Quotes about Ownership
If Christ is to give Himself wholly to me, He must know that He has me wholly for Himself.
— Andrew Murray
Let's yield ourselves to take up the appointment the Savior gives us. Let's concentrate on His relationship to us as Master and no longer start each new day with thoughts of comfort, or joy, or blessing. Let the first thought be: I belong to the Master.
— Andrew Murray
He became, really, the best utilizer of information to control absentee ownerships that there's ever been. Which gave him the ability to open as many stores as he opens, and run them as well as he runs them, and to be as profitable as he makes them.
— Sam Walton
If we are not our own, but the Lord's, it is clear to what purpose all our deeds must be directed. We are not our own, therefore neither our reason nor our will should guide us in our thoughts and actions. We are not our own, therefore we should not seek what is only expedient to the flesh. We are not our own, therefore let us forget ourselves and our own interests in as far as possible.
— John Calvin
Since he has so chosen us, we belong to him, more especially because he has bought us by the blood of his Son.
— John Calvin
That the covetous wants that which he has, as well as that which he has not; because he is master of nothing, and is the slave of his own wealth.
— John Calvin
I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!
— David O. McKay
Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.
— Bruce Lee
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
— John Maxwell