Quotes about Resourcefulness

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

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.

A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself.

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.

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

I often advise young brides who are traveling during their first weeks or months of marriage to start "homemaking" in a hotel, even if they are there for only a night, rather than groaning about having to "wait so long to have a home". How? ...Your own cloth, your own candlestick, just one rose or daffodil is enough to make a difference... You will be surprised how much difference it makes to have done something to make a room your home, even for one night.

And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.

No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away.

When life throws you lemons, make orange juice. It will leave them wondering how the hell you did that.