Indispensable Quotes

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)
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. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Meetings are a great trap. ... they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable. View quote
Kin Hubbard
In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. (Havelock Ellis)
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity. View quote
Novalis
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. View quote
Kathleen Norris
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Only useless things are indispensable. View quote
Francis Picabia
Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home. View quote
Christopher Dodd
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. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises. View quote
Thomas Hardy
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavour, it's indispensable." ― [6]. (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents. View quote
Louise Bourgeois
Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before. View quote
Françoise Sagan
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for. View quote
Helen Suzman
The graveyards are full of indispensable men. View quote
Charles de Gaulle