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Need Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need…
- To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think…
- We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something…
- There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on…
- Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your…
- Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary…
- The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his…
- When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for.…
- We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
- To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
- You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
- Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
- The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few…
- No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner…
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- We don't need youth museums. But we do need holy young people. — Pope Francis
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the… — Frederick Lenz
- May be my words are enough to tell you , How I feel,But you really need a heart to understand my silence. — Nishan Panwar
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams