Needs Quotes - Page 4

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

I don't want my kids saying, 'My dad was a gangster, so I need to be a gangster. I would rather mine say, 'My dad was a stunna, so I need to be a stunna.'

We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.

God is awesome; he doesn’t need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.

If your habits don't line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream

Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit

Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'

If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

Hitler wanted to destroy Russia- everyone needs to remember how that ended

I'm what I am and I'm what I'm not. And I'm sure happy with what I've got. I live to love and laugh a lot. And that's all I need.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.

If you are going to do TPS you must do it all the way. You also need to change the way you think. You need to change how you look at things.

All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there is never a "completely ready," there is never a really "right time." As with any descent to the unconscious, there comes a time when one simply hopes for the best, pinches one's nose, and jumps into the abyss. If this were not so, we would not have needed to create the words heroine, hero, or courage.

We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content living in a world with so much poverty and inequality? These questions motivate us to view the issue of inequality as central to human living.

I live to love and laugh a lot and that's all I need

My friends, how desperately we need to be loved and to love. With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.

God doesn't need a lot to do a lot. All David had was five stones. And all David used was one.