Vital Quotes

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Thomas Jefferson

Parent, Force, Principle

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Winston Churchill

Good, Power, Today

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung

Gratitude, Human, Feelings

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
John Wooden

Happen, Big, Details

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Leo Buscaglia

Time, Learning, Parents

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato

History, Truth, Poetry

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell

Fear, Problem, Boredom

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
Dave Barry

Bad, Beer, Water

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
Walt Disney

Work, Done, Goal

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
William James

Great, Show, Greater

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.
Dwight L. Moody

Rich, Sick, Blood

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Strength, Today, Tomorrow

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Emma Goldman

Life, Love, After

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno

Important, Win, Prepare

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.
Charles Rangel

Integrity, Democracy, Country

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
Sylvia Plath

Woman, Feeling, Thinking

Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.
Vladimir Putin

End, Nothing, Human

It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.
Princess Diana

Try, Touch, Monarchy

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
Henry Miller

Before, America, Young

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
Simone Weil

War, Live, Help

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.
Charles Stanley

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Michael Korda

Success, Time, Strength

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
David Herbert Lawrence

Truth, True, Memory

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.
Roger Sessions

Sense, Makes, Effort

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.
Morarji Desai

Good, Selfish, Human

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
Kate Beckinsale

Sex, Someone, Sense

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
Jack Herer

Nature, Growing, Survival

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
Mary Quant

Money, Fun, Rather

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!
Stephen Covey

Family, Society, School

Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.
Ida Lupino

Men, Hate, Approach

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