Definition of Essential

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Essential

Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.

Hence, really existing; existent.

Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.

Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.

Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.

Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.

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Essential Quotations

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
John Wooden

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
Napoleon Hill

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
Theodore Roosevelt

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Robert H. Schuller

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
Sun Tzu

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
Sun Tzu

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
John Adams

Essential Translations

essential in Dutch is essentieel, intrinsiek, vitaal
essential in German is Hauptsache, notwendig, wesentlich
essential in Italian is essenziale, importante, necessario
essential in Latin is necessarius
essential in Portuguese is essencial
essential in Spanish is necesitario, esencial

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