Quotes About Resourcefulness

Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

As poor as a church mouse.

Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.

It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which ensure success.

It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which insure success.

Do for yourself or do without.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.

Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.

You can't catch trout with dry breeches.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

One of your most powerful inner resources is your own creativity. Be willing to try on something new and play the game full-out.

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

From a fallen tree, make kindling.

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.

Want is the mother of industry.

If your boot is too tight, walk barefoot.

The government can catch a hare with an oxcart!

What do these children do without story books? Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them. I couldn't live without them. Naftali said.