32 "Needs" Quotes

In today's fast-paced world, understanding and addressing our needs is more crucial than ever. Whether they are physical, emotional, or psychological, our needs shape our actions, decisions, and overall well-being. To provide some insight and inspiration on this vital topic, we’ve curated a collection of the top 32 quotes that encapsulate the essence of human needs. Join us as we explore these powerful words of wisdom, each shedding light on what it truly means to need and be needed.

1. “There's never enough of the stuff you can't get enough of.” - Patrick H.T. Doyle

2. “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” - Philip Pullman

3. “For need can blossom into all the compensation it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing-the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again. Though we dream and hardly know it, longing, like an angel, fosters us, smooths our hair, and brings us wild strawberries.” - Marilynne Robinson

4. “Hope and faith goes hand-in-hand, because without hope there is no faith. The same goes with want and needs, without any wants, there no need to have a need” - Temitope Owosela

5. “What exactly did having needs mean, while he was on the subject? That Delaney needed to have sex? that she craved an orgasm? And if that were the case, why couldn't she just take care of the matter on her won in the privacy of her home without putting him through all this torture? Anything was preferable to the thought of her being with Jake.” - Sarah Mayberry

6. “The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.” - Francis Chan

7. “My mother says that when Mrs. Rowley is mean, which is generally the case, it is really because she is just unhappy, and who could blame her with a husband like that . . . She says this is really the only reason people are ever mean--they have something hurting inside of them, a claw of unhappiness scratching at their hearts, and it hurts them so much that sometimes they have to push it right out of their mouths to scratch someone else, just to give themselves a rest, a moment of relief.” - Laura Moriarty

8. “Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.” - Joss Whedon

9. “One must count ones riches by the means one has to satisfy his desires.” - L'Abbé Prévost

10. “A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.” - Albert Einstein

11. “To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical wood in the land of sleep.” - Sarojini Naidu

12. “That's how they say it: He loves you in his own way. Well, what about my way? What if I need for him to love me in my way?” - Tammara Webber

13. “Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.” - George Bernard Shaw

14. “Man is the measure of all things', said the Sophist Protagora (c. 485-410 B.C.). By that he meant that the question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a person's needs.” - Jostein Gaarder

15. “The need for social interaction ... is very much a part of why women shop. All our interviewees commented at some point that social interaction was part of the shopping experience. Many people now live alone in 'dormitory' suburbs, are often working from home or in isolated jobs, may be home with young children or part of the aging population of retiring baby boomers. All these groups need social connection, and shopping strips and malls provide many opportunities for reliable, safe and interesting social connections.” - Stella Minahan, Michael Beverland

16. “You aren't alive if you aren't in need.” - Henry Cloud

17. “You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.” - Deborah Day

18. “If God gave you contentment then you would never pursue your life purpose. It is your restlessness that pushes you to take action, change your life and seek more of what you could possibly be.” - Shannon Alder

19. “If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He will see to it that they are added unto us. If we follow Jesus and look only to His righteousness, we are in his hands and under the protection of Him and His Father. And if we are in communion with the Father, nought can harm us. God will help us in the hour of need, and He knows our needs.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

20. “...I need you to be a listener - you need me to hang word on. We're friends because neither has discovered a limit where the other ends...” - John Geddes

21. “When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.” - Randy Alcorn

22. “People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.” - Judith Guest

23. “At the critical moment it is the rare few who can do what needs to be done.-Icarus” - Boone Brux

24. “Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one--that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.” - Alain De Botton

25. “Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?” - John Wesley

26. “It doesn’t take objectivity to know what you want, and you’re not objective enough to know what you need.” - Amy Neftzger

27. “The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns out to be all you could ever need or want.” - Hayley and Michael DiMarco

28. “Each day brings a fresh opportunity for you to set the standard of how dedicated and committed you are to your needs, wants, goals, and relationships.” - Steve Maraboli

29. “Mungu hababaishwi na matatizo yako. Anababaishwa na imani yako.” - Enock Maregesi

30. “There are enough resources in the world for everyone.” - Bryant McGill

31. “(Regarding Marriage) Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other’s needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out.” - Alessandra Torre

32. “Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious.” - Bryant McGill