#Needs Quotes

“I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.”

“There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.”

“This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.”

“Once a need is satisfied, it is no longer a motivator. Satisfaction does not increase motivation”

“Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.”

“The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.”

“Some people get certainty by working harder and saying I'm going to master something. Some people get certainty by lowering their expectations, going 'it will never work. And they lose their dreams, but they get their needs. The needs are not like goals. They're not like belief systems that are built into you.”

“Whatever people do, they do for a reason and they think that it meets their needs....by their perception.”

“Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.”

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.”

“It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.”

“It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.”

“Explore your web: the needs, the beliefs, and the emotions that are controlling you so there's more of you to give and so you can appreciate what's driving other people. It's the only way our world's going to change.”

“We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.”

“Engaging people is about meeting their needs, not yours”

“It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.”

“The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore them.”

“I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

“I try not to invent things that people don't need.”

“First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.”

“None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.”

“I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it”

“Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.”

“A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.”

“Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'”

“With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.”

“What a lot of things I don't need.”

“Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.”

“How many things I can do without!”

“A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.”

“There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.”

“World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.”

“It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.”

“True marketing starts...with the customer, his demographics, his realities, his needs, his values. It does not ask, "What do we want to sell?" It asks, "What does the customer want to buy?"”

“The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed”

“It is necessary for the heart to feel as for the body to be fed.”

“There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.”

“We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.”

“The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.”

“And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?”

“Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.”

“Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.”

“The needs of a society determine its ethics.”

“We need much less than we think we need.”

“The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.”

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”

“This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.”

“Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.”

“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”

“The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.”