Quotations about

Need

Give me love and work—these two only.

—William Morris

You can never get enough of what you don't really want.

—Eric Hoffer

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

—Pearl Bailey

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your abundance.

—Kahlil Gibran

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.

—Tom Robbins

There is always the need to carry on.

—Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

—Erich Fromm

So many gods, so many creeds, / so many paths that wind and wind, / While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

—Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it… a sure sense that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

—John Ruskin

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

—Unknown

All religions begin with the cry "Help.

—William James

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

—Philip Guston

People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don't need help.

—Glennon Doyle Melton in Warrior

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

—Vernon Howard

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

—R. Buckminster Fuller