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Quotes about Resourcefulness

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
— Elbert Hubbard
The woman is a gentle, loving bond who encourages, consoles, builds, reconciles, and makes all things new and vibrant. The woman is strength in time of suffering, courageous in failure, intuitive in time of danger. A woman is ingenuous when all fails, resourceful in times of want, and a true helpmate for man.
— Mother Angelica
He is poor, who has need of another, and has not from himself all things that are useful for life.
— Marcus Aurelius
Nothing should be carelessly thrown away, not even wine from sinful places. There was no such thing as garbage, trash, or dirt, only matter that hadn't been put to a proper use.
— Margaret Atwood
Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.
— Seth Godin
begin with, will be used up too quickly and I won't have any left by the time the war is over. Yours
— Anne Frank
What's a bootstrapper to do? You have to go where the other guys can't. Take advantage of what you have so that you can beat the competition with what they don't.
— Seth Godin
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
— George Bernard Shaw
there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.
— George Eliot
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
— Samuel Johnson
If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.
— Brian Tracy