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"I need to live up to my potential, wherever that may be, in all aspects of my life. My head gets in the way, and I need to look at the big picture - that this is the best, and I am living my dream."
"Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it."
"The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs."
"God knows better than we do what we need."
"We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful."
"All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous."
"I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan."
"When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing"
"A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail."
"Determine what your customers need, and work backwards."
"What we need is love without getting tired."
"Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs to get the poor people out of poverty for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly."
"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders."
"The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla."
"What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?"
"I feel like you only need one moment of inspiration to turn your life around."
"Once we recognize our need for Jesus, then the building of our faith begins. It is a daily, moment-by-moment life of absolute dependence upon Him for everything"
"Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation."
"Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be."
"It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn."
