Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

Necessity has its own rules

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.

Necessity does the work of courage.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Necessity has no law.

When one must, one can.

… the duress of the facts

We look forward to the necessity of coercion …

You must come into the war if you are to survive.

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

Everyone does what they believe they need to do in order to survive in this business, 'survive' being the operative word.

I don't do what I do willingly, but I have to do it.

I once used a fork to comb my hair because there was a time when I didn't own a hairbrush.

I do what I've got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can't put that together and understand that.

This is the land of getting over. The land of second or even third chances; the land of doing whatever you have to do by any means necessary in order to fulfill the American Dream.

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

A man could get used to anything if he had to.

Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.