108 Not Required Quotes

Following is our list of not required quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about when there is no option.

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Famous Not Required Quotes

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. - W. Edwards Deming

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. — W. Edwards Deming

The ride does not require an explanation, just participants. — Sonny Barger

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem — William of Ockham

The superfluous, a very necessary thing. — Voltaire

To advise is not to compel. — Proverbs

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. — Gordon Bell

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn. — W. Edwards Deming

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do. — John Stuart Mill

We make allowance for necessity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation. — John Archibald Wheeler

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty. — Corrie Ten Boom

Dialogue is a necessary evil. — Fred Zinnemann

A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice. — Bill Cosby

Integrity needs no rules. — Albert Camus

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. — Bill Cosby

Short Not Required Quotes

  • Individual learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for organizational learning. — Chris Argyris
  • Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger Dijkstra
  • Good luck needs no explanation. — Shirley Temple Black
  • Good luck needs no explanation. — Shirley Temple
  • There is no need to change this world at all; and there is no need to change yourself either. — U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Necessity dispenseth with decorum. — Thomas Carlyle
  • Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. — Plato
  • God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try. — Mother Teresa

Top 10 Not Required Quotes

For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory. — Douglas MacArthur

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation. — Mark Twain

Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement. — Mother Angelica

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it. — Francis of Assisi

Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't. — Antonin Scalia

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. — Cesar Chavez

It does not require many words to speak the truth. — Chief Joseph

The lifting up of the woman does not require the tearing down of the man. In fact, a strong woman appreciates a strong man. Conversely, a strong man is not intimidated by a strong woman. — T. D. Jakes

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified. - Mahatma Gandhi

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified. — Mahatma Gandhi

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now! — Elisabeth Elliot

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Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required. - Winston Churchill quote

Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required. — Winston Churchill

Not required quote Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainty.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainty.

Perfection Not Required Quotes

Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own. — Simon Bolivar

A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection. — Dallin H. Oaks

The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like. - Mooji

The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like. — Mooji

Not required quote Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow
Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them.

Do not wonder why things are "taking so long." In fact, everything is rolling out exactly as it needs to, using not a minute more than Perfection requires. Rest easy and be at peace. Life is working its magic even as you take your very next breath. — Neale Donald Walsch

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. — Carl Sagan

Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you. — Jerry Spinelli

Not required quote A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams, or your dignit
A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams, or your dignity.

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life. — Michael Sandel

In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive benevolent dictator to push through the reforms required to get the economy moving — Dambisa Moyo

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life. — Michael Sandel

...the soul does not require the organs of sense in order to see, hear, smell, taste and feel, in a much more perfect state; but with this great difference, that in such a state, it stands in much nearer connection with the spirtual than the material world. — Carl Jung

When There Is No Value Quotes

There is no way anything of value can be done without some framework. It might well be that the framework is discarded or the rules opposed; that is not important. What is essential is that they exist so that one knows when one is in opposition to them. — Margot Fonteyn

Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our abilities, the stronger they become. The difference is that, unlike the body, when it comes to training the mind, there is no limit to how far we can go. — Dalai Lama

There is no situation that could ever confront you that cannot be solved. Life takes on real meaning when you set values for yourself, regard yourself as worthwhile and elevate your thoughts to things that are of God-good. There is a Higher Power. Turn to it and use it; it is yours for the asking. — Bryan Adams

Not required quote Great acheivement always requires great sacrifice.
Great acheivement always requires great sacrifice.

We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness. — Marianne Williamson

A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji) — Hiromu Arakawa

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically. — John Currin

Not required quote To embark on the journey towards your goals and dreams requires bravery. To remain on that path requ
To embark on the journey towards your goals and dreams requires bravery. To remain on that path requires courage. The bridge that merges the two is commitment.

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value. — Jonathan Sacks

There is no solution or perfect model you can follow. The best thing I can say is you've got to get close to what you really value. When you strip away your role as a parent, as a mother, and as an executive, what really makes your heart sing? How can you make your mark? — Maureen Chiquet

And it is a quiet terrible thing, too, to discover the value of love this way [after loss] - when the object of love is no longer there, when love dies or goes away or changes. When it is too late. — Vera Nazarian

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. — Neal Cassady

Not Giving Value Quotes

The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value. — Claude Monet

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people. — Joyce Meyer

Not required quote It does not require many words to speak the truth .
It does not require many words to speak the truth .

Multitudes and charlatans have entered the cryptocurrency and smart contract spaces who not only lack cypherpunk sensibilities, but hate cypherpunk values, including the values such as trust minimization that give cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin their market values. — Nick Szabo

'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. What he is able to enjoy is something that may not be available to everybody. But it's about the value of being willing to get and willing to give good advice. — Tom Hanks

Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment. — Eckhart Tolle

Not required quote Hard times require furious dancing.
Hard times require furious dancing.

The value of a man resides in what he gives — Albert Einstein

God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone. — A. B. Simpson

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism. — Rollo May

All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors. — Kahlil Gibran

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More Not Required Quotes

Success in science and scientific work come not through the provision of unlimited or big resources, but in the wise and careful selection of problems and objectives. Above all, what is required is hard sustained work and dedication. — Lal Bahadur Shastri

Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking. — Alfred Adler

I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they required irrespective of their individual capacity to pay. — Tommy Douglas

The perfect family doesn't exist, nor is there a perfect husband or a perfect wife, and let's not talk about the perfect mother-in-law! It's just us sinners. A healthy family life requires frequent use of three phrases: "May I? Thank you, and I'm sorry" and "never, never, never end the day without making peace." — Pope Francis

It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path. — Katharine Drexel

Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record. If someone hurts you repeatedly, you are commanded by God to forgive them instantly, but you are not expected to trust them immediately, and you are not expected to continue allowing them to hurt you. — Rick Warren

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth. — Chief Joseph

We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it? — Wendell Berry

Joining a band of brothers together, a group with one common interest or mission, whether as a company, a team, or a motorcycle club, requires not only a commitment to loyalty but an understanding of self-preservati on as well. — Sonny Barger

My worship is of a very strange kind. In this, Ganga water is not required. No special utensils are necessary. Even flowers are redundant. In this puja all gods have disappeared. And emptiness has emerged with euphoria. — Lahiri Mahasaya

Dreams require down payments. Dreams are free, but the journey isn't. There is a price to pay. When you find your why you'll find your way. When you develop your will you will embark on your way. Many people start; few people finish. Many people have a dream; few people achieve their dreams. — John C. Maxwell

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes. — Jack Kornfield

Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages. — Tom Regan

We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self. — Rose Philippine Duchesne

Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change. — John C. Maxwell

Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave. — Barbara Jordan

The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call "following your bliss." — Joseph Campbell

If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles. — Howard Zinn

Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call global challenges, which require global solidarity. — Ban Ki-moon

God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying. — Bayard Rustin

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied. — Haile Selassie

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth — Mason Cooley

Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak. — Tal Ben-Shahar

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving — Paul David Tripp

If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external. — Stephen Covey

The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes. — Mahatma Gandhi

"My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he said that this is "the most important activity," and "if half of the Brothers would work, and the other half pray, this would not require too much." — Maximilian Kolbe

Truth is a process not a final destination. The former requires humility and curiosity. The latter dogmatic certainty. There’s always more nuance and wisdom to discover, through empathy and reason. — Lex Fridman

The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts. — Russ Feingold

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity. — Carl Schmitt

Discipline is the key to success. Absolutely is. If you cannot force yourself to do something that you do not want to do, how are you ever gonna put yourself through the suffering required for greatness? — Andrew Tate

Entrepreneurship requires passion, not just skill. — Dan Sullivan

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