Top 100 A Necessity Quotes
#1. When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.
Steve Pavlina
#2. Having been adopted, I really have a strong sense- a necessity almost- for stability, a foundation where my family is concerned. [Success] would be meaningless without anyone to share it with.
Faith Hill
#3. God is not a luxury you can't afford; He's a necessity you truly cannot live without!
Monica Denise Brown
#4. I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.
Rafael Vinoly
#5. If we want to live and die in peace, holiness is in truth a necessity.
J.I. Packer
#6. The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.
Anton Chekhov
#7. Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth.
T.F. Hodge
#9. I wanted him like I wanted air to breathe. Not a choice- a necessity.
Stephenie Meyer
#10. Being truthful is a necessity because when I'm not being truthful it takes a toll on me. I don't have any room for it in my life. I don't have an across-the-board opinion on honesty in relationships. But for me, personally, it's paramount.
Dax Shepard
#11. When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop.
Kajol
#12. Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.
Jennifer Frick-Ruppert
#13. How shall a man be proud, when his conception is a crime, his birth a penalty, his life a labour, and death a necessity! -
Arthur Schopenhauer
#14. The point is, whether or not they show it at dinner parties, writers learn, by a necessity of their trade, to be the sharpest of observers.
John Gardner
#15. Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.
Theodore Roosevelt
#16. Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.
Rebecca West
#17. Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.
Dalai Lama XIV
#18. To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#19. That's the thing about luxury, darlings. The moment you become accustomed to it, it is no longer a luxury but a necessity. People forget this.
Susan Jane Gilman
#20. I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying 'no' politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.
Richard Chamberlain
#21. I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill.
James Hillman
#22. We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.
Joan Halifax
#23. Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.
Germaine Greer
#24. Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.
Sheila Cassidy
#25. I disliked guns, but I learned to use them. I had come to understand guns, that they were tools and that they were no more evil, in their essence, than pliers and wrenches. At times, they were a necessity. In a world of evil, they were often also a blessing. Now and then, as I've said, I was able to
Dean Koontz
#26. We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
Arthur Erickson
#27. Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option ... they will become a necessity.
Fujio Cho
#28. Luxury is a necessity that starts where necessity stops. - COCO CHANEL (ATTRIB.):
Clive James
#29. To surround yourself with beauty isn't frivolous. It's a necessity. If it weren't, then our cities would not be surrounded with art museums and parks.
Charlotte Symonds
#30. There's a radical change in the relationship with the human being and society. Art now is an open conversation with the society. Previously there was a necessity for a little bit of screaming and shouting just to get it into the conversation.
Lawrence Weiner
#31. For a great life it is a necessity to be kind, but for the greatness of life it is essential to be forgiving.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Mother Teresa, when asked about her holiness or saintliness, always answers in a matter-of-fact way that holiness is a necessity of life--and explains that it is not the luxury of a few, such as those who take the course of religious life, but is "a simple duty of all. Holiness is for everyone.
Lucinda Vardey
#34. Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
Oscar Wilde
#35. We've got to let the people know that there is a necessity, it's not even an option, it's a necessity to have a chiropractor. As much as it is a necessity to have a dentist, if you have a dentist for the family, you should have your chiropractor for the family.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#36. Healthcare for trans women is a necessity. It is not elective. It is not cosmetic. It is life saving.
Laverne Cox
#37. Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#38. I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited to reading authors who's work was composed in the languages I happen to have learned.
Daniel Alarcon
#40. The first three years was our honeymoon period. Then you settle into the relationship, and it morphs into just living, breathing. It becomes more comfortable, but it becomes a necessity - something you can't give up, like an addict.
David Burtka
#41. Persuade yourselves, that the faith of the gospel is beyond the power of nature; that there is a necessity of a power from on high to bring you to believe. This will raze the old foundation, and cause you to look up for it.
Thomas Boston
#42. At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#43. A big group of daily friends or a white painted house with bills and mirrors, are not a necessity to me - but an intelligent conversation while sharing another coffee, is.
Charlotte Eriksson
#44. In the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking ... Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.
Antonio Guterres
#45. Even though I am very tied to and close to my heritage, I learned Spanish in college; I didn't grow up with it. Growing up in South Texas is different from Miami or L.A. where it is a necessity to speak Spanish.
Eva Longoria
#46. Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.
Jonathan Lethem
#47. Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
Honore De Balzac
#48. ...the schoolmaster was one of those men for whom virtuous indignation was a necessity.
Gabriel Chevallier
#49. [S]leep, and enough of it, is the prime necessity. Enough exercise, and good food and enough, are other necessities. But sleep - good sleep, and enough of it - this is a necessity without which you cannot have the exercise of use, nor the food.
Edward Everett Hale
#50. When people love one another, conversation is not a necessity but a pleasure, and when they reach, as at times they do, deep into the immeasurable part of what holds them together, everything can pass between them without a word.
Mark Helprin
#51. Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Anais Nin
#52. Jay-Z is as politically correct as some of the politicians. He's safe. There's points when you're acquiring financing, you make adjustments. He's made those adjustments. It's his choice. For me, it's not a necessity.
Curtis Jackson
#53. Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.
Bob Hoskins
#54. You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and a tool to institute fairness that capitalism supposedly hasn't.
David Harsanyi
#55. To be loved without a shred of any reserve is a necessity for me.
Arnold Bennett
#56. Committing to a lifetime of wellness is not a luxury-it's a necessity. You'll never have enough time; you have to make the time.
Oprah Winfrey
#57. What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
Seneca The Younger
#58. The Bible is not an option; it is a necessity. You cannot grow spiritually strong without it.
Billy Graham
#59. Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.
Robert Boyle
#61. I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.
Anthony Powell
#62. Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.
Charles Garfield
#63. Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
Keith Richards
#64. Faith does not limit itself by the idea of a world, a universe, a necessity.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#65. Traditionally games never used professional writers to create their narrative, so there's definitely a residual feeling that hiring a proper writer is somewhat of a luxury, rather than a necessity. Like a feng shui consultant.
Rhianna Pratchett
#66. 90. Being Set at meat Scratch not, neither Spit, Cough, or blow your Nose except there's a Necessity for it.
George Washington
#67. Do you know that the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated, since it is a necessity prejudiced in its own favor. ...There is plenty more life demanding to be born. ...He was worth nothing to the world. The supply is too large.
Jack London
#69. Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it.
Marc Jacobs
#70. Melrose was so concerned that the [book]shop might close for lack of business, that he had suggested he would like to invest in it or even become a silent partner. "You see, books have always been a hobby of mine." Books had never been a hobby; they were a necessity.
Martha Grimes
#71. Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
John Betjeman
#72. That there is, besides a necessity of cause and effect - which I may call the logic of space - another necessity, an organic necessity in life, that of Destiny - the logic of time - is a fact of the deepest inward certainty,
Oswald Spengler
#73. Debt certainly isn't always a bad thing. A mortgage can help you afford a home. Student loans can be a necessity in getting a good job. Both are investments worth making, and both come with fairly low interest rates.
Jean Chatzky
#74. The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#75. The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.
Herbert Hoover
#76. Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.
Alice Hegan Rice
#77. An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
Bernard Williams
#78. Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#79. The Bay Area definitely knows the pain of competing for, and retaining, top talent. Offering interesting perks has become a necessity, not a nice-to-have.
Paige Craig
#80. Success in life is a necessity, but happiness is essential.
Debasish Mridha
#81. It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.
Idries Shah
#82. (The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any Persons at all upon a necessity of making such an Option, wherein if they choose amiss, the Misery they incur must be irrevocable.
Samuel Clarke
#83. impudicitia in ingenuo crimen est, in servo necessitas, in liberto officium ("to be the object of anal penetration is a crime in the freeborn, a necessity for a slave, a duty for a freedman").
David Graeber
#84. Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
John Muir
#85. Failure is the quintessence to triumph. Fear is a necessity. Whatever is needed in one's life to maintain the universal principle of Chaos should be seasoned and not discouraged. Regardless of whether it's crazy, it's one's subjective reality. That makes it beautiful.
Lionel Suggs
#86. Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
Jim Rohn
#87. High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve.
Jack Canfield
#88. The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.
William Osler
#89. Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
Jan Morris
#90. There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.
Louis Garrel
#91. Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
Karl A. Menninger
#92. I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.
Mindy Kaling
#93. Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by their neighbors.
Victor Hugo
#94. Nothing but a necessity invincible by any other means can justify ... a prostitution of laws, which constitute the pillars of our whole system of jurisprudence.
Thomas Jefferson
#95. he watched it with curiosity. It was strange to be conscious of another person's existence, to feel it as a close, urgent necessity; a necessity without qualifications, neither pleasant nor painful, merely final like an ultimatum.
Ayn Rand
#96. A workplace desk is like a woman's handbag; it's private and a necessity.
Christine M. Knight
#97. Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#98. Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.
Pearl S. Buck
#99. Everything is inconceivable. The whole world is inconceivable to the strict logic of ideas. And yet the world exists to our senses, and we exist in it. There must be a necessity superior to our conceptions.
Joseph Conrad
#100. Want and need are not the same things either. A want can be foregone. It is voluntary, a nice-to-have.
A need is required, a necessity. If he needed me, I'd be essential for his success, for his happiness.
Cynthia Sax
