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Quotes About Needy

The moral test of government is how it treats people in the dawn of life, the children, in the twilight of life, the aged, and in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped
~ Hubert Humphrey
When someone is humiliating and harassing a woman, he must be knowing that the victim is needy and left with no option but to tolerate such harassment to save the job.
~ Soni Razdan
Being nice to over dramatic, needy people is too much effort. bi..., I'm not your mum or therapist. Your life is more stable than mine.
~ Unknown
Grace is for the desperate, the needy, the broken, those who cannot make it on their own. Grace is for all of
~ Philip Yancey
But I cannot advise that we remain as we are. And if any one laughs at us for going to school at our age, I would quote to them the authority of Homer, who says, that 'Modesty is not good for a needy man.' Let us then, regardless of what may be said of us, make the education of the youths our own education.
~ Plato
Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter [that is, her fellow cities] had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." Ezekiel 16:49
~ Derek Prince
Your personality was arrested at an early developmental age. You are an adult, but your emotional age is very young. You look like an adult but feel very childish and needy. You feel like the lifeguard on a crowded beach, but you don't know how to swim.
~ John Bradshaw
The Trumans usually celebrated Thanksgiving in the White House, but they spent most Christmases in Independence, quietly, with their families. And every year they instructed the kitchen help to prepare two full Christmas meals to go to two needy families in the District of Columbia—and to tell nobody.
~ Unknown
An abuser can seem emotionally needy. You can get caught in a trap of catering to him, trying to fill a bottomless pit. But he's not so much needy as entitled, so no matter how much you give him, it will never be enough. He will just keep coming up with more demands because he believes his needs are your responsibility, until you feel drained down to nothing.
~ Unknown
It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erected a barrier of words and wit around myself, so that nobody could see how needy I really was.
~ Karen Armstrong
Perpetually needy people suck the life out of you, because no matter what you do for them, it's never enough.
~ Mark Goulston
People who were coddled often are needy or manipulative or become highly emotional when they're expected to do something they don't want to do.
~ Mark Goulston
It is, after all, far easier for today's statists to dole out money not yet earned by future generations not yet born and be lauded as compassionate, thereby reaping media plaudits and political benefits for generational wealth redistribution, than to be accused of denying subsidies and programs to a growing list of "worthy" and needy recipients and suffer the media and political backlash.
~ Mark R. Levin
The little-me is egocentric, concerned with self-preservation and inward looking. It has a habit of being judgemental, both to self and to others. It is critical, insecure, needy, defensive and proud. The little-me is only ever secure in achievement and is therefore highly fragile and easily offended. The little-me wants to control and manage, and cannot easily let go.
~ Mark Townsend
To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.
~ Gautama Buddha
That's where spiritual warfare begins—leaving our own methods of filling our gaping holes at the well and allowing Jesus to fill every thirsty, needy place with His Living Water.
~ Mary E. DeMuth
It was then I realized that the one thing worse than having a dog hate you is having a dog love you. Seriously, if there was a needier species in the universe, I have yet to meet it.
~ Matt Haig
Seriously, if there was a needier species in the universe, I have yet to meet it.
~ Matt Haig
We made a covenant with the Children of Israel, 'Worship none but God and be good to your parents and to relatives and orphans and the needy. And speak kindly to people.g
~ Unknown
What was it about needy girls? Jules wondered. They felt like they had the right to be needy, because they knew that other people would be interested in—although annoyed at—their needs. … They got all the attention. Boys turned their focus toward them, and messy situations results.
~ Meg Wolitzer
I am disappointed. Violette knows how I feel about smart girls turning into needy sex objects for dumb boys.
~ Melina Marchetta
I had never really thought of children as people, just as mysterious and needy creatures on their way to something greater.
~ Michelle Richmond
I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.
~ Mindy Kaling