Needs Vs Wants Quotes

I do worry that we're failing in a whole bunch of fundamental ways to distinguish for our kids between needs and wants. And we're failing to distinguish between production and consumption.

Many people who say they have financial problems really mean that they want more than they need.

I’ve never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don’t have and don’t need.

People need things. I don't live a monk's existence, I'm a consumer, but I try to do it to the level that doesn't feel like there's an overabundance of something.

I think one of the biggest things is I wasn't spoiled as a kid. I got what I needed. I didn't always get what I wanted. But it's good to have what you need.

Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.

The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs.

What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

How much does one person need to live? I've never needed or wanted that much.

What do people want? Well, you really can’t talk about wants until you talk about needs.

That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

Just because you can afford it doesn't mean you should buy it.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

In my life, what I want and what I need are exactly the same. Anything in excess of needs is burdensome to me. You couldn't give me anything I don't need. I am penniless, but have difficulty remaining so. Several of my well meaning, well-to-do friends have offered me large sums of money, which I of course refused.

Few experiences help our kids discover the distinction between needs and wants like the great outdoors.

Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.

Show your kids that needs and wants are two different things. The best way to teach our kids to be smart consumers - and savvy savers - is to model good behavior for them.

Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent will give it fruits and vegetables instead. That is not what the child wants, but it is what the child needs.

Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.