Better To Have And Not Need Quotes

#1. It's better to HAVE and NOT NEED than to NEED and NOT HAVE.

LiNCOLN PARK

#2. brought them along nevertheless, remembering the old line, it was better to have and not need, than need and not have. Gus shook his head once,

Keith C. Blackmore

#3. My vision is to hire qualified employees that may have not yet had the opportunity to create a better life for themselves, or did have one but might have came down on hard times and need a hand.

Grace Hightower

#4. With a curious zeal to better understand our own existence, we often go far out of our way to find out who we are and where we have come from. Why? We need to know, not just for the present, but from our earliest beginnings to the present.

Edward J. Fraughton

#5. God is good to all of us. He knows what we need better than we do. And just because he thinks it is better not to give you what you want right now doesn't mean he isn't answering you. You shall have what you ask for but not until the right time comes.

Johanna Spyri

#6. Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.

David Gemmell

#7. A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#8. When Newt walked in the barn to get a rope, the Captain turned and handed him a holstered pistol and a gun belt. "Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it," he added, a little solemnly.

Larry McMurtry

#9. It's better to have something and not need it than to need something and not have it.

Julie Harrington

#10. If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.

Peter Singer

#11. the innate need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world'.62 Numerous experiments have shown that not only do rewards reduce motivation, they actually hamper our performance. In

Raoul Martinez

#12. Like the NRA says, it's better to have a machine gun and not need it than to need a machine gun and not have it.

John Sandford

#13. Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge ...

George Soros

#14. Besides, information was like weaponry. Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

James Patterson

#15. Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.

Richard Russo

#16. My job as a surgeon is not just to fix a joint, but to give my patients the encouragement and tools they need to speed up their recovery and leave my clinic better than they have been in years.

Kevin R. Stone

#17. I've often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.

Ray Bradbury

#18. It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them, she said.

Kristin Cashore

#19. Does god need our prayers? No. God doesn't need anything. A god in need is not a god indeed. So why do we pray? We pray out of a sense of gratitude. Prayer is a thank you. We feel better when we have offered our gratitude to the creator. Prayer is for our emotional and spiritual edification

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#20. The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.

Peter Block

#21. We have better things to do. We realize life is not just a dress rehearsal and if you realize it, you don't need a bumper sticker to remind you.

Aimee Bender

#22. If my own struggles have taught me anything, it is that my greatest need is to know God better, and I am not alone.

Carolyn Custis James

#23. I've noticed that the less makeup I wear, the less I need it because my skin starts to look better - my face doesn't break out as often and I have fewer skin problems because I'm not clogging your pores every single day with makeup.

Lindsay Arnold

#24. It is not enough to celebrate Christmas. We need to be changed and shaped by what we are celebrating. If our spiritual life is no better in spite of all our praying, fasting, and church services, then we have not yet begun to fully respond to the significance of Advent and of the Nativity.

Vassilios Papavassiliou

#25. I'm an actor, I do movies, and I need to find somebody who enjoys that kind of stuff. It's not like, "Oh, I have my work time, and we go on a date, and it better be darn fun and exciting!" I think it should all coalesce a bit more.

James Franco

#26. Older people are not going to evaporate from the face of the Earth for two years. They're going to have medical need and they're going to have to be attended to. And the earlier intervention for it, the less the cost will be and the better the quality of life.

Nancy Pelosi

#27. I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

Karl Marlantes

#28. New Rule: Americans have to come up with a better cheese to represent the nation than American cheese. I'm not even sure American cheese is cheese. I think it's aged Jell-O. And it doesn't need to be individually wrapped in plastic, either. You're thinking of condoms.

Bill Maher

#29. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

Tamora Pierce

#30. The big budget films have money to do things that are not necessarily essential but sure are comforting. The catering is usually much better. And you have way more of anything you could possibly need. You definitely get a trailer. My shirt and suit for 'Million Dollar Baby' were tailor made.

Mike Colter

#31. Better to have the magical arsenal and not need it, than to not have it and get killed to death. I

Jim Butcher

#32. You don't need to kill with a sword, the tongue can do equally a better job and police will not knock on your door

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#33. Not to just say you need to be a good person - but, better, find the good that you already have in yourself and don't deny that, don't let the world talk you out of the good things because it's not hip or cool. Sooner or later, you have to live with yourself.

Martha Williamson

#34. As one of my teachers, Buckminster Fuller, says, we were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a wrong foot. The point is that, there's always two points of view out there, and we need to increase our ability to allow another point of view. Then we have a better chance for peace.

Robert Kiyosaki

#35. We work to live, we not live for to work, but we need to work if we no have income and the meaning of work is for everybody different, but the results from it is bring money for a better life.

Jan Jansen

#36. In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help anybody to open his heart we have to give him time, asking only a few questions, as carefully as possible in order to help him better explain his experience.

Paul Tournier

#37. President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?

Paul Ryan

#38. But it doesn't have to be this way. We can do things better. We need to stop doing business as usual and start focusing on end-to-end quality. Security needs to be built in from the start - not slapped on after the fact.

Gene Spafford

#39. Are you saying I have a short attention span?" "Not at all. I'm saying there's a fire in you that drives everything you do, that makes you need to better the world and those you love. To stand up for those you can't. It's one of the wonderful things about you.

Richelle Mead

#40. You do not have to feel truer than others in order to be original.
You just need to be different and keep aspiring to be a better you.

Toba Beta

#41. Most of us need a good ride on the Sin Wagon, and if I were to meet a man who was better looking than say, Yoda, I might treat him to some Serta hospitality. I'd like to have said this to Mama but could not because she is certain that a real Southern lady doesn't enjoy the business at hand.

Susan Reinhardt

#42. We need to think harder and smarter. What we really need is holistic analysis, not holistic media data. We need to make better use of what we have. We need to dig deeper and ask, 'Do you need to repeat the whole study or can you examine the bits that have changed and re-calibrate?'

Jenny Beck