Quotes about Resourcefulness

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

We should remember Christ's words, 'Let nothing be wasted,' when we look in our refrigerators and garbage cans and garages.

Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.

Experience has taught me, said Peter (...) that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he should have procured The Times this morning by the simple expedient of asking the milkman to request the postmistress to telephone to Broxford and have it handed to the 'bus-conductor to be dropped at the post-office and brought up by the little girl who delivers the telegrams is a trifling example of his resourceful energy.

Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.

For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.

The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

If we can (generate) the right emotion inside of us, we can get ourselves to do anything. If you don't have the money, but you're creative and determined enough, you'll find the way.

I'm so Optimistic I'll take my last 2 dollars and buy a Money Belt.

By asking the question How can I afford it? your brain is put to work.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.