65 Indispensable Quotes On Success In Life
These indispensable quotes will inspire you. Indispensable, absolutely necessary, essential.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging indispensable quotes, indispensable sayings, and indispensable proverbs.
Best Indispensable Quotes
- “The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.” ~ Ben Stein
- “Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.” ~ Christopher Dodd
- “To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” ~ Bertrand Russell
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“Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.” ~ Donald Rumsfeld
- “A man doesn’t begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.” ~ Richard E. Byrd
- “Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.” ~ Pat Riley
- “What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
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“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Don’t wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.” ~ Carl von Clausewitz
- “Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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“There is no indispensable man.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
- “Only useless things are indispensable.” ~ Francis Picabia
- “Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.” ~ Theodore Parker
- “So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.” ~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- “The graveyards are full of indispensable men.” ~ Charles de Gaulle
- “The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.” ~ Albert J. Nock
- “Ideology… is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.” ~ Louis Althusser
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“I don’t think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.” ~ Jeanne Moreau
- “Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.” ~ Novalis , Nothing is indispensable quotes
- “In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.” ~ Claudio Hummes
- “World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace” ~ Gifford Pinchot
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“If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.” ~ Gijs de Vries
- “I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.” ~ Robert Delaunay
- “Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.” ~ Bergen Evans
- “The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.” ~ Leland Stanford
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“In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.” ~ George Henry Lewes
- “Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable” ~ Robert Delaunay
- “To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.” ~ Margaret Oliphant
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“You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.” ~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- “In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens’ rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation’s history.” ~ Allen Weinstein
- “Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.” ~ Anais Nin
- “Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.” ~ Erik Erikson
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“The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.” ~ Friedrich von Bernhardi
- “After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.” ~ John Polkinghorne
- “The men who create power
make an indispensable contribution
to the nation’s greatness.
But the men who question power make
a contribution just as indispensable
for they determine whether
we use power
or power uses us.” ~ John F. Kennedy -
“Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.” ~ Maria Callas
- “Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.” ~ Charles Sanders Peirce
- “Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.” ~ Andre Gide
- “Honesty first; then courage; then brains – and all are indispensable.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
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“Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable.” ~ Lionel Jospin
- “Charm” — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman’s strength just as strength is a man’s charm.” ~ Havelock Ellis
- “An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.” ~ Ouida
- “Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.” ~ Moses Mendelssohn
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“A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men…” ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- “Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.” ~ Alexis Carrel
- “Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.” ~ Benjamin Cardozo
- “So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism – despotism during the campaign – is indispensable.” ~ Walter Bagehot
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“Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.” ~ Hannah Arendt
- “A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.” ~ Franz Liszt
- “A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.” ~ Simone Weil
- “Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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“Democracy is indispensable to socialism.” ~ Vladimir Lenin
- “Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society – and well worth fighting for.” ~ Helen Suzman
- “America’s highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.” ~ Christopher Dodd
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“Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.” ~ Jean Cocteau
- “What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself – and thus make yourself indispensable.” ~ Andre Gide
- “The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.” ~ Walter Lippmann
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“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.” ~ Wilhelm Wundt
- “One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine” ~ Jean-Francois Lyotard
