Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Necessity.
What one has to do usually can be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.
Sir Terence Conran
Necessity is the mother of attraction.
Luke Mckissack
Necessity... the mother of invention.
Plato
So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
Samuel Johnson
The superfluous is very necessary.
Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Necessity does everything well.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
Need is the driving force, Need makes people better -- luck only makes them worse.
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Necessity has no law.
Oliver Cromwell
Necessity is the author of change.
Tim Hansel
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Oscar Wilde
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Thomas Carlyle
We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
Albert Camus
Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.
Orson Scott Card
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Euripides
Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.
Jonathan Schattke
