Motivational Quotes

Necessity

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

- Elizabeth I

Best Quotes about Necessity

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt

Necessity is the mother of attraction.

Mckissack, Luke

Need is the driving force, Need makes people better -- luck only makes them worse.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

Maistre, Joseph De

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Marx, Karl

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.

Schattke, Jonathan

Necessity has the face of a dog.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

10.

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

Camus, Albert

11.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Arendt, Hannah

12.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

Elizabeth I

14.

Nature must obey necessity. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

15.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Not even the gods fight against necessity.

Simonides

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It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.

Linn, Walter

18.

Foul water will quench fire.

Proverb, English

19.

The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.

Hoffer, Eric

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Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

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