Browsing Topic 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.

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.

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.

The soul gives us resilience – an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.

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

God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. … One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.

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

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

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.

An essential aspect of maturing is developing the ability to take increasing responsibility for our own lives—to become increasingly self-directed.

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.

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

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.