Essentials Quotes · Page 17

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

An independent and free media is essential to ensure democracy.

— Warren Christopher

Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.

— Susan Cain

Staying engaged with God is absolutely essential for getting through a tough time.

— Max Lucado

Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Inner child work is essential. It's the essence of growth as a whole person

— Cheryl Richardson

Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music…

— Wynton Marsalis

It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

— Samora Machel

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and…

— Bertrand Russell

You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

— Habib Bourguiba

What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.

— Jewel

Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.

— Harold Rosenberg

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights...

— Ayn Rand

The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.

— Donald Calne

It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow,…

— Jim Sensenbrenner

[To actors on opening night:] You have had good equipment to work with. You've had a theater with everything you needed, and…

— Hallie Flanagan

For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights…

— Ai Weiwei

Everybody needs a fan, and the support and the encouragement. We're human beings; that is an essential part of the equation. When…

— Jillian Michaels

But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all…

— Albert Einstein

Let's forget about themes and mood boards. Let's start from a different point of view. You have to leave for two months…

— Christophe Lemaire

O most illustrious of the days of time! Day full of joy and benison to earth When Thou wast born, sweet Babe…

— Abraham Coles

Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and…

— Joseph Priestley

I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant…

— George Saunders

What our view of the effectiveness of religion in history does at once make evident as to its nature is--first, its necessary…

— William Ernest Hocking

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Most of all, I like the quiet, rounded tugs. They remind me of women. As I watch them work I see them…

— Hazel Hawke

A group of women who valued motherhood, but valued it on their own timetable, began to make a new claim, one that…

— Kristin Luker

We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as…

— Hubert Reeves

I want to be a hybrid fighter. From Pacquiao I was able to learn that a big heart is also essential when…

— Tomoki Kameda

Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

— Wallace Stevens

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

— Scott McCloud

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

— Galen

Many things are good, many are important, but only a few are essential.

— D. Todd Christofferson

All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

— Calvin Coolidge

Having knowledge of the Bible is essential to a rich and meaningful life.

— Billy Graham

Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

— John M. Perkins