Top 82 Quotes About Doing What Needs To Be Done

#1. You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.

Daniel Clowes

#2. He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.

Benjamin Whichcote

#3. You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.

Erica Jong

#4. Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.

Vijay Mallya

#5. Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think we all have that reserve somewhere and we pull upon it when we need it.

Vin Diesel

#6. Every one needs someone and there is someone for everyone.

Truth Devour

#7. PUBLISHER'S NOTE To seize the knowledge of the UNKNOWABLE needs a language, which is at once symbolically creative, revealingly poetic, infinitely plastic, luminously rhythmic, automatic perception of right relations and their inevitable descent of truth of idea, word and action.

Maa Krishna Sri Aurobindo

#8. A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Mary Engelbreit

#9. Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

Gore Vidal

#10. Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. The more we keep our mind on ourselves and our wants, the more unhappy we become. God wants us to love others and meet their needs.

Joyce Meyer

#12. What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, It's all your fault!

Haruki Murakami

#13. I feel the need to scream, and even if the scream is not answered, I find my sanity in the echo.

Lewis Black

#14. The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing.

Michael Moore

#15. Nations could not return to their settled an independent life again without noticing that they had unconsciously adopted, and come to feel here and there previously unrecognized spiritual and intellectual needs.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#16. There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

Bertrand Russell

#17. Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.

David Parnas

#18. Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.

Yoko Ono

#19. The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.

Marianne Williamson

#20. If I'm in ya starting five you will never need a sub and I'm never looking down, so I always know what's up.

Drake

#21. Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

Annie Lennox

#22. It seems almost inherent in human beings that when you are thriving for a certain level of spirituality, you tend to reject clothes, and the implied need to hide yourself.

Jim Dodge

#23. The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.

Karl Marx

#24. I'm running [ for presidency] because we need to take our country back.

Bobby Jindal

#25. You need lucky breaks to be successful.

Richard Branson

#26. I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.

Catherine Malandrino

#27. To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.

Bill Crawford

#28. All you need is time ... and you have it ... NOW

Neville Goddard

#29. Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone ...

Elizabeth Gilbert

#30. You need to know your craft.

Lorena Garcia

#31. It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life ... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time.

Frances Perkins

#32. Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power-Us. We are the future.

Max McKeown

#33. Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.

James Paul Gee

#34. If I can save one person along the way, I'm okay. The trials and tribulations my special needs kids go through daily is far greater than the journey I'm about to go on.

Renee Sloan

#35. Nothing remains idle and thrives. Life needs a moving force to prevent the devastating effects of stagnancy. That is why life employs change.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#36. Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.

Brian Behlendorf

#37. Money needs to be sown into a fertile soil as a seed. We need to invest it for it to benefit us.

Sunday Adelaja

#38. When people have supernatural beliefs I think they should be respected but there is no reason why they need to impose them on others.

Ian McEwan

#39. We are on parallel paths with the planet. The wants and needs of marine wildlife are our own: we want connection, companionship, a healthy clean environment.

Adrian Grenier

#40. On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.

Henry Hampton

#41. We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it weakens both the power of the faculty and exploits these workers.

Henry Giroux

#42. I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God ... I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.

Elvis Presley

#43. When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

Mahatma Gandhi

#44. I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

Christina Aguilera

#45. Keep in mind that you don't need to be addicted to money in order to acquire it. You can prefer to have money; you will then be able to enjoy whatever money you receive, but your happiness will not be contingent on the size of your bank account.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#46. A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus. Our scars may be our greatest ministry.

Adrian Rogers

#47. Take your light and take your love into the world as the only weapons that we need to make this world truly glorious, truly beautiful, and astonish all of life.

Hafsat Abiola

#48. You must have a dragon hidden inside you. When you need, you let the dragon out.

Anderson Silva

#49. As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs.

Alan Price

#50. He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#51. I am quite an admirer of Fidel [Castro]. For me, Fidel is the first and the best man in solidarity with the peoples of the world. Fidel shares not just what he does not need, but every little thing he has. That is called solidarity.

Evo Morales

#52. I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live environment. Some of what I write could of course be played in a concert hall, but for the needs of a film I don't consider that.

Geoff Zanelli

#53. One must need spirit toacquire spirit; one loses it when one no
longer needs it. Whoever has strength dispenses with the spirit.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#54. I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

Kent McCord

#55. Of course, even though Peter and I have had our disagreements, we share a bond I'd defend to the death if needs be. If all goes according to the natural order of things, siblings will know us longer than our parents, longer than our spouses and friends. Lord Westdale to Duncan

Kieran Kramer

#56. If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more likely I am to get me own needs met.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#57. Freedom is not doing what you want when you want. Freedom is the power to do what has to be done when it needs to be done.

Hugh Douglas

#58. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having.

Neil Gaiman

#59. If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.

Barry Eisler

#60. I think sometimes Richmond, especially the House of Delegates, thinks too small ... Richmond is not doing what needs to be done, forward thinking, big bold ideas.

Terry McAuliffe

#61. belief in yourself that you can do it, and the ambitious dedication to doing what needs to be done to do it.

Ervin DeCastro

#62. I want you to think of me as a soldier,' she persists. 'A soldier in this war who's doing what needs to be done.

Pittacus Lore

#63. Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.

James L. Farmer Jr.

#64. Good work requires of us an appreciation of the value of routine, ordinary, mundane rhythms of doing what needs to be done, each day and each week, thoroughly and with care.

Gordon T. Smith

#65. We all need to be recognized for what we're doing, for our work. Every once in a while we need someone to come up to us and say, 'You're beautiful. That was well done. That's nice.'

Leo Buscaglia

#66. The assumption of spirituality is that always God is doing something before I know it. So the task is not to get God to do something I think needs to be done, but to become aware of what God is doing so that I can respond to it and participate and take delight in it.
When

Eugene H. Peterson

#67. That's what brave is, you know. Doing what needs to be done when you're scared shitless.

Jacqueline Rhoades

#68. The Tea Party is clearing gunk out of the fuel lines of this country. It started with throwing out Democrats, but the Republicans are going to be next. We're doing what needs to be done for the sake of the country.

Brad Thor

#69. You will never know what could have been done until you start doing what needs to be done.

Orrin Woodward

#70. Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

George Bernard Shaw

#71. A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don't bring a passion and an intensity to it, you shouldn't be doing it.

James Cameron

#72. Look, sometimes being a hero isn't about getting the glory. It's about doing what needs to be done -Liam

Christopher Healy

#73. I try to be a smart quarterback. I'm not the fastest or the best athlete, but if I can know what the defense is doing and stick to my job and what needs to be done I can make the plays needed to move the ball and score.

Eli Manning

#74. At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.

Philip Slater

#75. It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.

Mitt Romney

#76. Look," Liam said, "sometimes being a hero isn't about getting the glory. It's about doing what needs to be done.

Christopher Healy

#77. We all know what needs to be done - it's the doing it that is the challenge!

Amanda Gore

#78. In the real world, those of us who are most productive, successful, and satisfied focus not on fixing feelings or manipulating thoughts, but on what needs to be done-and then doing it-no matter what thoughts or feelings arise.

Dan Millman

#79. Brave is being scared and doing what needs to be done anyway

R.C. Lewis

#80. But love isn't just about feeling good. It's about doing what you don't want to do, over and over again, if it needs to be done, for the sake of someone else. Love is really about self-sacrifice.

Meg Meeker

#81. A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.

Harbhajan Singh

#82. If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!

Peter Drucker

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