26 Quotes About Needs And Want

The needs-and-wants are the basic needs of all living beings. The needs are the basic requirements for survival, such as food, water, shelter, clothing, and medical care. The wants are the things that may or may not be considered necessary but are purchased to fulfill basic needs, such as food, clothing, entertainment, and shelter. The following collection contains some of the best needs-and-wants quotes that will inspire you to live life with purpose.

Supply the needs first and the wants later, for one...
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Supply the needs first and the wants later, for one can only obtain true peace, love and joy when one supplies the needs first and not the wants. David Benedict Zumbo
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If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger. Dan Groat
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Don’t waste your life trying to fill up a hollow or a hollow be filled up because it not only makes your life shallow but your conscious hollow. Amit Abraham
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You will know those who love you, when you are in need. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Because our needs are our little daily dreams The little things to be done that project us into tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the future; trivial things that we plan to buy next week, allowing us to think that next week we'll still be alive. Unknown
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Insofar as there shall always be a desire, there shall always be a want and there shall always be a need Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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What matters most, God was there for me, when I need him. Lailah Gifty Akita
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A girl who travels has learned how to dance barefoot. She’s learned to place her toes in the sand and dance through rhythm, not through rehearsed footwork. She’s learned to follow what she likes, not what she needs to like. Lauren Klarfeld
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God shall supply my every need. Lailah Gifty Akita
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When we stake a claim to the needs and wants of our life, we may easily fail to live up to the standards of others. Empathy and connectedness, however, might bridge the gap, by stirring our consciousness of the sensitive queries and by assessing the intricate framework of our surroundings with their countless, prickly nitty-gritties. ("Absence of Desire") Erik Pevernagie
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You think you know what you want and how it's all supposed to turn out. When all is said and done, you get what you need. You know in the end that what you need is what you really wanted all along. Kate McGahan
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Sometimes the best things for us aren't necessarily the things we want. Sara Farizan
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If you don't need what you really want, you can barely want what you really need. Olaotan Fawehinmi
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All I need is you even if I don't know if I can't have you. Fatma Alfalasi
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It is a mistake, ” he said, “to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. Isaac Asimov
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I have what I need. This is enough. Lailah Gifty Akita
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It takes time, or does time take it? Anthony Liccione
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Surviving is about need. Living is about want. Dan Groat
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In times of your need, you will know those who really love you. Lailah Gifty Akita
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What I like and what I need’s two different things. J.D. Jordan
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The energy that mosquitoes need to lay eggs is neither the same as that which elephants need to bring forth nor that which a woman needs to push, yet they all need a certain amount of energy vital for them to produce something! Go help somebody for God’s sake; your little is vital! Your little will inspire! Your little will bring smiles! Go help somebody now! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want. Dan Groat
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All I need is you even though I don't know if I can have you. Fatma Alfalasi
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As a child you received messages from your family to keep your mouth shut and remain invisible. You also learned to become invisible in order to protect yourself. You no longer need to be invisible to survive. If people do not notice you, they may not abuse you, but they also will not love you or attend to your needs. Make yourself and your needs known. Beverly Engel
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If you work you will never go hungry. Lailah Gifty Akita