Quotes About Resourcefulness

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

If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.

If something is too hard, we move on to something else. What could be simpler than that?

It's the work on your desk. Do well with what you already have and more will come in.

Did you even use anything at all in that bag of yours?" "No, but I might use some of it later." And I almost certainly would, once I got rid of this crybaby and picked up my drag queen.

As an old acquaintance of mine used to say, "If you can't duck it, fuck it." I'm pretty sure he knew it was duct and not duck, but I'll forgive him for the sake of the rhyme.

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back.

when I removed my first aid kit from my pack and opened it up, all of my Band-Aids blew away.

The building was old. A more prosperous community would have torn it down years ago, but Ice Islanders just kept fixing it, making do. The prevailing attitude seemed to be that good teachers and not fancy buildings were the key to a solid education. A teacher needed books, a blackboard, chalk, and a classroom. Period. The function of the building was to keep the students warm and dry; anything else would be extravagant.

Max took a bag of smoke and flash grenades, the .45 and shotgun Lee had left behind, an Uzi, two short tripod- and swivel-mounted guns with radio antennae, a bag of extra clips, and the bag of surveillance equipment. As an after-thought, he took out the tire iron and jammed it into the ammo bag.

Girls' handbags have enough to make a survival kit for Antarctica.

Thrift began with civilization. It began when men found it necessary to provide for to-morrow as well as for to-day. It began long before money was invented.

Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you can get rid of him on weekends.

I ran out of toilet paper and started using lettuce leaves. Today was just the tip of the iceberg; tomorrow romaines to be seen.

Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy.

Life lesson from the nursery: Broken crayons can still color.

Split your own wood, and it will warm you twice.

Good workmen never quarrel with their tools...

You need to have a can-do attitude. There is always a way.

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.