Motivational Quotes

Necessity

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Necessity

Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Nature must obey necessity. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Euripides

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

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.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Schattke, Jonathan

10.

Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.

Conran, Sir Terence

11.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

12.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What one has to do usually can be done.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Not even the gods fight against necessity.

Simonides

15.

Only useless things are indispensable.

Picabia, Francis

16.

Foul water will quench fire.

Proverb, English

17.

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

William Pitt

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

Camus, Albert

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Necessity is the author of change.

Hansel, Tim

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Necessity has the face of a dog.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Marx, Karl

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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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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

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Necessity is the mother of attraction.

Mckissack, Luke

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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.