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Quotes About Resourcefulness

When you have only two pennies left in the world buy a loaf of bread with one. and a lily with the other.
~ Chinese proverb
The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
~ Linus Torvalds
Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Start where you are, use what you have.
~ Arthur Ashe
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
~ Zig Ziglar
If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.
~ Napoleon Hill
Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Never Underrate A Street Boy With Wifi
~ Genereux Philip
if you cannot find the distinctive opportunities you want, you can create the distinctive opportunities you want but you can't find!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
To do his best, one needs a confidence that says, "I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.
~ Ben Carson
When banana's don't work, try a cookie.
~ L. M. Fields
Creativity is admired only if it solves the problem.
~ Amit Kalantri
All you need to grow fine, vigorous grass is a crack in your sidewalk.
~ Will Rogers
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
~ Will Rogers
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
~ Will Rogers
The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.
~ Will Rogers
Het eerste waar Nederlanders aan denken, als ze iets willen verkrijgen dat hun eigen land niet oplevert, is niet het zelf te gaan maken, maar het te zoeken in den vreemde.
~ Willem Frederik Hermans
Seneca's comment to Lucilius that "the man who adapts himself to his slender means and makes himself wealthy on a little sum, is the truly rich man.
~ William B. Irvine
Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.
~ William B. Irvine
Stoic test strategy: when faced with a setback, we should treat it as a test of our resilience and resourcefulness, devised and administered, as I have said, by imaginary Stoic gods.
~ William B. Irvine
her predicament. In his autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt offered this bit of Stoic-inspired advice: "Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.
~ William B. Irvine
Theodore Roosevelt offered this bit of Stoic-inspired advice: "Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.
~ William B. Irvine
Given time to attend to their own affairs in exchange for subsisting themselves, slaves gardened, tended to barnyard animals, and hunted and fished on their own. Occasionally, they manufactured small items and sold them to their owners, neighbors, or other slaves." Money was not the issue. The correlation to examine was between work and power.
~ William C. Rhoden