Quotes About Resourcefulness

I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age.

In books, no one helped a girl who didn't help herself and every fairy tale ended with the same lessons. Trick your enemy, do what you must, believe in enchantments, save yourself.

But now he had been forced to learn many skills; how to fix a roof, how to cook, how to steal, how to say goodbye.

And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content. Truman with his sculpting and building the recreation center. Lynne writing poems occasionally, reading them to her friends, then tearing them up.

I am telling you Discouraged One we will win. And I will show you why. We are the offspring of the ignorantly discarded: we conjure sunrise with our smiles and provoke music out of trash. Who can completely disappear such genius?

I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing a nuclear device in Brussels with only a pair of cuticle scissors and a ponytail holder. Somehow, at the moment, pies seemed cooler.

An Italian proverb says: The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.

You could never have too many knives in Logen's experience,

Seemed that Logen's father had been right. You can never have too many knives.

They say a man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from. I

Prefer to eat the eggs I've got, my king, rather'n the ones still up in the tree.

But we must work with the tools we have, as Savine's father had been so fond of saying.

You can never have too many knives." "No? What if you fall in a river and can't swim for all that iron?

The first few days, the worst thing he seen Harold do was take a dump and use the pages from one of the camp library books for toilet paper. Renée wined. "It turned out to be The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter . Our only copy. If I had known what he was going to do with it, I would've given him a copy of Atlas Shrugged .

I done the best I could with what I had -- Joe Louis

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

Life isn't all about what you don't have, but yet, what you do with what you have been given.

You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

If life hands you lemons,keep them. Because, hey, free lemons.-T-Shirt

I used everything you gave me.

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.