Top 610 Must Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Must Quotes from famous people such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Travis Bradberry, Malcolm Fraser, Marcel Proust, Charles Dudley Warner, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Grit is that ‘extra something’ that separates the most successful people from the rest. It’s the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.
Travis Bradberry
Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
Malcolm Fraser
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
Charles Dudley Warner
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas Jefferson
I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, ‘I am deaf.’ If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Elie Wiesel
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
Mahatma Gandhi
If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period… single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.
Susan B. Anthony
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer
The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.
Nikola Tesla
The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.
Jose Mourinho
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan… believe… act!
Alfred A. Montapert
There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don’t have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.
Kalpana Chawla
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey
I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’
Mark Twain
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Tacitus
Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
Robert Baden-Powell
The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.
Elena Kagan
We must address, individually and collectively, moral and ethical issues raised by cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and biotechnology, which will enable significant life extension, designer babies, and memory extraction.
Klaus Schwab
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
I must learn to love the fool in me – the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke
To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.
Confucius
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
Kalpana Chawla
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Plato
What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it – would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
Ralph Marston
Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before – but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.
Joe Lieberman
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
John Henrik Clarke
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsio

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area’s workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today’s global economy.
Rod Blagojevich
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
Maxim Gorky
To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.
Lou Ferrigno
If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.
James E. Faust
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‘real’ world.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi
For the nation to live, the tribe must die.
Samora Machel
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!
Fidel Castro
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.
George Gershwin
That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
Avicenna
Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don’t, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.
Jeremy Clarkson
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark Twain
When at last we are sure, You’ve been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.
Dr. Seuss
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Auguste Rodin
A woman simply is, but a man must become.
Camille Paglia
Art must take reality by surprise.
Francoise Sagan
In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.
Jacque Fresco
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
Toni Morrison
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
Noel Coward
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Pablo Picasso
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.
Dalai Lama
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.
Josephine Baker
We must stand together united in solidarity against the targeting, demonization, and vilification of any group of people.
Linda Sarsour
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam