Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Necessity Necessity... the mother of invention.

Plato

Necessity Law Nature Inspirational Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

Leonardo da Vinci

Resolve Consequence Necessity Courage Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Ernest Hemingway

Necessity Luxury Abundance Contrast They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Henry David Thoreau

Necessity Survival Motivation I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Bob Dylan

Capital Ethics Responsibility Necessity Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Law Order Governance Necessity Harsh laws are at times better than no laws at all.

Winston Churchill

Necessity Taking Chances Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Mark Twain

Madness Necessity Human Nature Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Blaise Pascal

Freedom Necessity Self-Discovery Struggle Liberation Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Hannah Arendt