Indispensable Quotes

382 quotes by 313 authors

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with… — Robert McAfee Brown
The sense of community is indispensable...to full self-realization. — Herbert J. Muller
Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, certainly do not constitute the aim of our Christian life:… — Seraphim of Sarov
It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend… — Benjamin Banneker
As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love… — Germaine Greer
Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner. — John Dewey
Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy,… — Bergen Evans
How can I be an educator if I do not develop in myself a caring and loving attitude toward the student, which is indispensable on… — Paulo Freire
Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men… — Brian Tracy
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life… — Henry David Thoreau
For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial… — Kofi Annan
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces… — James A. Garfield
In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today is ever more… — Pope John Paul II
Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth. — Li Zhaoxing
Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice. — Joseph Story
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result… — James Madison
The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a… — Alexander Hamilton
The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience. — Edward Gibbon
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the… — Norman Douglas
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. — Walter Bagehot

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