Definition of Possess

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Possess

To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold.

To have the legal title to; to have a just right to; to be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a book.

To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize.

To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc.

To put in possession; to make the owner or holder of property, power, knowledge, etc.; to acquaint; to inform; -- followed by of or with before the thing possessed, and now commonly used reflexively.

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Possess Quotations

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Napoleon Hill

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Napoleon Hill

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Benjamin Franklin

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Muhammad Ali

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
Dale Carnegie

Possess Translations

possess in Afrikaans is besit
possess in Danish is eje, besidde
possess in Dutch is bezitten, erop nahouden, rijk zijn
possess in Finnish is omistaa
possess in German is besitzen
possess in Italian is possedere
possess in Latin is obtineo, utor uti usus, teneo
possess in Portuguese is possua, possuir
possess in Spanish is poseer

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