Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Necessity

Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Polymath, Painter, Sculptor, Inventor, Architect

Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Necessity does everything well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Need is the driving force, Need makes people better—luck only makes them worse.
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The superfluous is very necessary.
Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author

Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Daniel Defoe (1659–1731) English Writer, Journalist, Pamphleteer

The necessities were going by default to save the luxuries until I hardly knew which were necessities and which luxuries.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American Architect

Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet

“Necessity is the mother of invention” is a silly proverb. “Necessity is the mother of futile dodges” is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English Mathematician, Philosopher

Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher

Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praise worthy.
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French Writer, Moralist

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.
Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer

Nature must obey necessity.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Foul water will quench fire.
English Proverb

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–73) American Head of State, Political leader

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer

Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.
Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian

Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

What was once to me mere matter of the fancy, now has grown to be the necessity of heart and life.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) British Poet

Necessity is often the spur to genius.
Honore de Balzac (1799–1850) French Novelist

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) Italian Poet, Philosopher

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied with everything that nature can demand, than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) English Aristocrat, Poet, Novelist, Writer

Necessity is the mother of invention.
Common Proverb

Necessity teaches all things
German Proverb

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity
Democritus (c.460–c.370 BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher

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