A Necessity is an item that you NEED, or is necessary for something

1. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
G.K. Chesterton

2. Make a virtue of necessity.
Geoffrey Chaucer

3. Necessity pushes you to uncover your potential
Anonymous

4. What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
Anthony Crosland

5. It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
Seneca the Younger

6. God is not an Option. He is a Necessity
Anonymous

7. Men are a luxury, not a necessity.
Cher

8. Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin

9. Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
Miguel De Cervantes

10. I did not grasp all these details – and many more – right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself and appear in my mind in a new light. It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
Yann Martel

11. There’s a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called ‘jobless recovery.’ Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.
Don Tapscott

12. How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
Yann Martel

13. Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war
Anonymous

14. Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
Plato

15. Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
Roger von Oech

16. The necessity arising from a want of specie is represented as greater than it really is. I contend that it is by the substance, not the shadow of a thing, we are to be benefited. The wisdom of man, in my humble opinion, cannot at this time devise a plan by which the credit of paper money would be long supported; consequently, depreciation keeps pace with the quantity of the emission, and articles for which it is exchanged rise in a greater ratio than the sinking value of the money. Wherein, then, is the farmer, the planter, the artisan benefited? An evil equally great is the door it immediately opens for speculation, by which the least designing and perhaps most valuable part of the community are preyed upon by the more knowing and crafty speculators.
G. Edward Griffin

17. Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.
Erich Fromm

18. Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to other.
William Pitt the elder

19. When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling. Thomas Clarkson

20. Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche

21. Men Are A Luxury, Not A Necessity
Anonymous

22. It's True That Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention. But For Those Of Us Without Fathers, There Is A Deeper Truth – Necessity Is The Mother Of Self-invention.
Michael Hainey

23. All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.
Friedrich Nietzsche

24. Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
Victor Huge

25. I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.
Brenda Laurel

26. And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
Aristotle

27. I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.”
Alex Campbell

28. I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.
Robert Walpole

29. War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call forth all that is noble and honorable in a man. It unites him with his brothers and binds them in selfless love, eradicating in the crucible of necessity all which is base and ignoble. There in the holy mill of murder the meanest of men may seek and find that part of himself, concealed beneath the corrupt, which shines forth brilliant and virtuous, worthy of honor before the gods. Do not despise war, my young friend, nor delude yourself that mercy and compassion are virtues superior to andreia, to manly valor.
Steve Pressfield

30. For me, it's not about price. … Like, I have my Wet N Wild 666 lip liner. … and always has been. I started using it when I was in high school, and it's great.
Fergie

31. A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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32. Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
Oscar Wilde

33. The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
Lord Byron

34. A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo

35. Necessity is the mother of invention
Anonymous

36. Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
Francis Quarles

37. To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
François de la Rochefoucauld

38. If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
David Rockefeller

39. The skin is an integral part of the body and depends upon the general system for its supply of food and to carry away its waste. Skin health depends primarily upon the general health of the body. All attempts to deal with the skin as an independent entity, without due regard to its reliance upon the general system, must of necessity result in failure. The skin is nourished by the blood and there is no other source from which it can draw sustenance. “Skin foods” are all frauds. These are composed chiefly of grease. No fat can be assimilated by the skin or other tissues of the body until it has first been broken down into its constituent fatty acids in the process of digestion. Even were this not true, the skin contains very little fat and these “skin foods” would still not constitute proper nourishment for it. Blood is the only skin food.
Herbert M. Shelton

40. To make a virtue of necessity
Anonymous

41. For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.
Jean-Marie Messier

42. God is not an option, He is a necessity
Anonymous

43. Invention is the mother of necessity.
Thorstein Veblen

44. Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx

45. Necessity is the mother of all Inventions.
Albert Einstein

46. Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.
Rebecca West

47. Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain

48. Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Euripides

49. Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Saint Augustine

50. The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. George Santayana

51. Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
Plato

52. Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison

53. Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.
Margaret Mead

54. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.
Caroline Myss

55. Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Anais Nin

56. So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of … level of concern.
Stephen Cambone

57. Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Edward Abbey

58. Necessity turns lion into fox
Anonymous

59. Necessity knows no law
Anonymous

60. Necessity does the work of courage.
Nicholas M. Butler

61. They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the “blaze of passion” often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.
Boris Pasternak

62. When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option, it's a necessity.
Steve Pavlina