Necessity Quotes

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The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity. — Gioachino Rossini
The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love. — Nikos Kazantzakis
Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards… — Baruch Spinoza
He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as… — Simone Weil
The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what?… — Natalie Maines
The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having… — James Payn
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition. — Ida Tarbell
Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. — Simone Weil
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. — William C. Menninger
Men are a luxury, not a necessity. — Unknown Author
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve. — Jack Canfield
Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength. — Jim Rohn
A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle… — Martha Graham
A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment. — David Gates
Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity. — Fujio Cho
Necessity is stronger far than art. — Aeschylus
Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes… — G I Gurdjieff
Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable woe the most… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library… — William E. Gladstone
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Make a virtue of necessity. — Geoffrey Chaucer

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