Needful Quotes

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy. - Helen Hunt Jackson

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope. - Thomas Carlyle

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty. - Rowan D. Williams

Then let them accomplish their needful acts of shaving and cleansing, and let them fulfil their vows and let them go round the Ancient House. - Quran

The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you. - Cotton Mather

The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order. - Henry Ward Beecher

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively. - Isaac Barrow

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russell Lowell