Quotes About Need

It was truly extraordinary how many men there were who felt the need of organizing something, of being important.

There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

If you're taking care of your family and society and are comfortable you can start to think about helping those most in need globally. That's how we became engaged in those things.

Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.

There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.

Those in true spiritual authority have neither the desire nor the need to control anyone, either directly or subversively.

Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.

To have a desire means to have dependency.

Marketing is the art and science of creating need. You can reach out to people to do this, but it's far more effective to attract them to you.

But I've since learned that for an athlete, the toughness has to come from within—from some sort of hunger, crisis, or need. You can coach nearly any other quality or skill into a runner, but you can't coach that.

Africa was full of people in need of help and there had to be a limit. You simply could not help everybody; but you could at least help those who came into your life. That principle allowed you to deal with the suffering you saw. That was your suffering. Other people would have to deal with the suffering that they, in their turn, came across.

He said that it should be on the basis of need. People who couldn't come up with a good reason to drive would not be allocated a licence. They would have to use public transport." Ulf sighed. This was typical of the Moderate Extremists: an impossible policy, dressed up in Utopian language, and destined—if not actually calculated—to antagonise at least one large segment of the population.

They were silent. It was not easy to see a solution to the problem of human need. It was easy to condemn those who stole, who poached wildlife, until you were asked what would you do if your only other option was starvation? That made it harder.

Charity begins at home. Was that a narrow, selfish adage or was it simply an inescapable, bedrock fact of life in human society? Does the one in need on your doorstep have a greater claim than the one in need in a distant country--if the level of need in each case is exactly the same?

There were words on our lips that in our loneliness alone wanted utterance, and the need by itself virtually created the feeling.

When there is little awareness of real need, there is little real prayer.

Worry never helped anything, so why turn to it during times of need? It won't nurture or heal you—quite the opposite, actually. It's so much better to put the effort into something creative as a way to quietly meditate through positive action. Create, create, create!

None of you [men] ask for anything—except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

The running joke is that the lack of sex makes people more intense, winds them up, messes with their heads. But it's not a joke. It's a critical need, and in my view, something whose contribution to the human condition and mental health can't be minimized.