Definition of Indispensable

Indispensable

Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite.

Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption.

Unavoidable; inevitable.

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Indispensable Quotations

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
Vladimir Lenin

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

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

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
Hannah Arendt

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
Eric Hoffer

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Charles de Gaulle

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
Jean Cocteau

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.
Karl Von Clausewitz

I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We've always said German unity, European unity and integration, that's two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness.
Angela Merkel

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

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
Simone Weil

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
Alexis Carrel

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

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.
Christopher Dodd

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.
Christopher Dodd

After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.
John Polkinghorne

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
Franz Liszt

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Indispensable Translations

indispensable in Dutch is onontbeerlijk, onmisbaar
indispensable in French is indispensable
indispensable in German is unentbehrlich
indispensable in Italian is indispensabile, indispensabile
indispensable in Latin is necesse
indispensable in Spanish is indispensable

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