Essence Quotes

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

The essence of leadership is to get others to do something because they think you want it done and because they know it is worth while doing.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

People's participation is the essence of good governance.

Amid the vastness of the things among which we live, the existence of nothingness holds the first place; its function extends over all things that have no existence, and its essence, as regards time, lies precisely between the past and the future, and has nothing in the present.

Socialism is, in its essence, an attack not only upon British enterprise, but upon the right of the ordinary man or woman to breathe freely without having a harsh, clumsy, tyrannical hand clapped across their mouths and nostrils. A Free Parliament-look at that-a Free Parliament is odious to the Socialist doctrinaire.

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

To all the seeds that follow me, protect your essence. Born with less, but you still precious.

The essence of femininity is to absolutely love being a woman.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

Never forget the essence of your spark!

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.

It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain the what is the essence of the attraction of gravity?

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Simplicity is the essence of universality.

Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for.

Suffering is the essence of success!

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.