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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

  Bergen Evans

  Liars, Lying, Tolerable

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• The men who create power
  make an indispensable contribution
  to the nation's greatness.
  But the men who question power make
  a contribution just as indispensable
  for they determine whether
  we use power
  or power uses us.

  John F. Kennedy

  Greatness, Men, Use

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.816, Best Books on

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• Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Positive, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Business, Military

  Quoted in Richard Nixon, Six Crises (1962)

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• What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.

  Andre Gide

  Change, Being Yourself, Writing

  "Les Nourritures Terrestres". Book by André Gide, 1897.

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• Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

  Christopher Dawson

  Christian, Literature, Way

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• The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

  Walter Lippmann

  Learning, Glowing, Politics

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.233, Harvard University Press

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• No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Fighting, Political

  Winston Churchill (1947). “Great Contemporaries”

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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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• Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

  Theodor Adorno

  Revenge, Mind, Criticism

  Theodor W. Adorno (1982). “Prisms”, p.22, MIT Press

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• Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Reality, Ingredients, Chaos

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, p.289, Harvard University Press

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• We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

  John Hope Franklin

  Country, Truth, Life Lesson

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• International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

  Hans Blix

  Cooperation, Multilateralism, International

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• India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.

  Stafford Cripps

  Special, Being Free, Firsts

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• The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

  James Dickey

  New York, Crazy, Intelligent

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• Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

  Arlen Specter

  Strong, Health, Years

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