Quotes About Resourcefulness

People who create their own opportunities will get further in life than people who expect opportunities to be created for them.

God has provided food for every bird, but He doesn't throw it in their nests

Life can be compared to fishing, you can get anything you want, as long as you use the right bait.

Men who fish at shallow waters can never have enough fish to feed their family talk less of a nation or a generation

Everyone is born with an instinct of success, and ability to make it, but only the ones who think out of the box succeed.

Things don't always go as planned, but it's when you make a plan out of the unplanned and make the best of the unlikely things In life.

The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.

To bend the work of nature to your will; to make the trees of the earth useful to human beings - what could be more admirable , more exciting than this? That is what I would say to any boy who has his life before him.

use your brain as cleverly as you use your hips and mouth.

I kill one realistic dragon a day, and unfortunately the meat is too tough to eat or we could save money on steak.

North Korea is a small country with few resources and a moribund economy. In spite of all this, however, it has managed to survive and successfully manipulate larger players, including an impressive number of the great powers.

If it's easy to reuse, people will. Create an environment that supports reuse.

Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.

Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true.

I felt joined to all the men and women across cultures down through the ages who'd done something useful with their hands, who'd made essential things from whatever was in front of them.

My mother says I am a pack rat. So what? Pack rats are probably very nice animals. And I bet they're prepared for anything. I know I am.

She thought of Mama making dresses for her and Rose because handmade was cheaper than store bought

We opened one, store number 8 in Morrilton, Arkansas, that was really a sight. We rented this old Coca-Cola bottling plant. It was all broken up into five rooms, and we bought some old fixtures from a failing Gibson's store for $3,000. We hung them by baling wire from the ceiling. We had clothes hanging in layers on conduit pipe all the way to the ceiling, and shelves wired into the walls. But this was really a small, small town, so number 8 was another experiment. We

Always carry a large flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and further, always carry a small snake.

She blamed the lack of real flowers on both weather and the war, and instead put four or five pieces of coal in glass bowls, added water, salt, and ammonia, before finally pouring a mixture of violet and blue ink over them. It was a complete mystery to me how this alchemy would result in anything resembling flowers, but they were "blooming" within the hour.

And you know what they say. Always carry a large flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and further, always carry a small snake.