Needs Quotes

Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be.

No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

Who needs action when you got words?

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

I don't have everything I want but I have everything I need. That's contentment.

If you’re not passionate about what you’re doing, you need to stop doing it. You aren’t living your truth.

She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.

An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.

It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.

When we try to get ourselves out of the way, we can understand much better the needs of the people closest to us.

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

You don't need a plan; you just need to be present.

If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.

There is no rule that says a footballer needs to be 'this high' and 'this wide.'

And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.

People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.

A great coach can lead you to a place where you don't need him any more.

We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

When you try, God is there and you get the grace you need to get you through.

If you don't wear lipstick, I can't talk to you. You need to have lips - they are important for getting men.

An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.

America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.

You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.

What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.

This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.

Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.

I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.

You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be friends or just friendly acquaintances.

We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, you are not leading well.

I probably spent more money trying to do things that I didn't need to do.

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.