Best Essentials Quotes

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

I heard a voice that told me I’m essential. How all my fears are limiting my potential. Said it’s time to step into the light and use every bit of power I have inside.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

I don’t think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

Stillness is your essential nature.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things… one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

Paint the essential character of things.

The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not wrought a deep and solemn conviction in the public mind, that greater energy of government is essential to the welfare and prosperity of the community

An essential part of a happy, healthy life is being of service to others.

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It makes you go into detail that you can avoid. It takes a lot of energy out of you but that’s the only way you finally actually achieve excellence. So in that sense, being finicky is essential.

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder’s frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

The creation and destruction of harmonic and ‘statistical’ tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and ‘regular’ throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only ‘good guys’ in it, or eating cottage cheese.

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

It is good advice to slow down a little, steady the course, and focus on the essentials when experiencing adverse conditions.

Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.

Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love and imagination.

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

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

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

There’s a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.

Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist – you can always do better and you can always grow.

The fact that we have to fight for something so essential to life as the integrity of seeds, speaks to the real drama of this present time: that we have to fight to preserve what is most fundamental and sacred to life.

Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme in giving them the power to force all those engaged in production to comply with their orders. It forces all those engaged in production to the utmost exertion in the service of the consumers. It makes competition work. He who best serves the consumers profits most and accumulates riches.

Forgiveness is essential to health, growth, and healing.