Demands Quotes

• There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Moments

• Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Marriage
  • Arts
  • Demands

• Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite but humanity at large should profit by it.

  

  Rudolf Christoph Eucken
  • Humanity
  • Idea
  • More

• Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Suffering

• I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Authority
  • Demands
  • Nonbeliever

• Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

  

  Aristotle
  • Justice
  • Turn
  • Ruled

• Whenever I go to see her, she recharges my energy and enables me to cope with the many challenges and demands of my busy life.

  

  Prince Andrew
  • Life
  • She
  • Energy

• Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

  

  Alan Autry
  • Choices
  • Leadership
  • Demands

• The demands they have made could not be met without great damage to jobs and industry, to essential services ... to pensioners and children.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Great
  • Children
  • Jobs

• The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Energy
  • Prayer
  • Lazy

• Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

  

  Wilhelm Steinitz
  • Game
  • Slavery
  • Reflection

• Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Honor
  • Demands
  • Sage

• You just want to play. You don't think about the money, how many followers you've got on Instagram. You just want to make it. You don't understand the demands, how intense it is at times - the scrutiny you're going to get.

  

  Ashley Cole
  • Money
  • Play
  • Demands

• Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Responsibility
  • Moral
  • Courage

• I stand on the threshold of new missions and life is making new demands upon me. No matter what further tasks I shall be carrying out, it is perfectly clear to me that the complete liberation of the working woman and the creation of the foundation of a new sexual morality will always remain the highest aim of my activity, and of my life.

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Life
  • Activity
  • Demands

• Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Moral
  • Price
  • Engendered

• Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Action

• The nicest people fall in love indiscriminately ... while under the influence of that pre-eminently selfish lunacy they may make the most outrageous demands upon their friends with no other excuse than their painful need.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • People
  • May
  • Friends

• There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

  

  Ken Starr
  • Respect
  • Excuse
  • Demands

• The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.

  

  Confucius
  • Demands
  • Great Man
  • Petty Man

• Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

  

  Confucius
  • Love
  • Object
  • Does

• Everything touches me—I see too much, I hear too much, everything demands too much of me.

  

  Benjamin Moser
  • Demands
  • Touches

• When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • May
  • Reality
  • Surprise

• If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.

  

  Ernest K. Gann
  • Battle
  • Engineers
  • Warfare

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