Indispensable Quotes

• The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

  Ben Stein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

  Christopher Dodd

  Home, Feet, Firefighter

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• To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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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

  Men, Thinking, World

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Wisdom, Men

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.296, Island Press

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• Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Volleyball

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• 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

  Love, Dream, I Hate You

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2001.

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• Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Ireland And The Irish, Care

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"

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• Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

  Mark Twain

  Dirty, Pigs, Likes

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• 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

  Inspirational, Courage, Light

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.102, Princeton University Press

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• Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Change, Business, Organization

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”

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• There is no indispensable man.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Jobs, Men, Presidential

  Speech accepting Democratic presidential nomination, Seagirt, N.J., 7 Aug. 1912

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• Only useless things are indispensable.

  Francis Picabia

  Useless Things, Useless, Uselessness

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• Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

  Theodore Parker

  Religious, Strong, Business

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Lay Morals".

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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

  Law, Political, Elements

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• The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Leadership, Death, Witty

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• 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

  School, Noble, Goes On

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• 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

  Men, Demand, Existence

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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

  Congratulations, Believe, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

  Novalis

  Literature, Links, Divinity

  "Blüthenstaub". Book by Novalis, 1798.

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• In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

  Claudio Hummes

  Facts, Construction, Individual

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• 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

  Practice, Two, Foundation

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• If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

  Gijs de Vries

  Information, Share, Combat

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• 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

  Believe, Profound, Culture

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