Resourcefulness Quotes

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness.

The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it’s resourcefulness.

What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp.

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

Make the most of What you have, When you have it, Where you are.

You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

You don't have to be very brilliant. You don't have to have such a wonderful education. You can be an outstanding success if you will only take what little you have, whether it's little or much, and start using it, putting it into operation, doing something about it, and doing something with it. And, of course, that calls for initiative.

I learned to park outside of Denny's because it's 24 hours. I made a deal at a 7-Eleven with a mailman so I could get my mail delivered there.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

You work with what you got.

The bathrooms - that usually would be a porta-potty - were wrapped in a fabric that was neutral to match the fort ... the same materials that were used to cover the bathroom, we said, 'Let's just use that [to cover a bar at the reception], because this is all we have to make the bar look better.' Which it did, in the end.

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

You don't lack resources. You lack resourcefulness .

Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.

He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.

A good wit will make use of anything.

If I don't have red, I use blue.

There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn't do it--he knew better how to use his money than that.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

The difference between those who succeed and those who fail isn't what they have'it's what they choose to see and do with their resources and their expertise of life.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

When we run out of money, we have to start thinking.

The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.

make away out of no way

I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

Being truly thankful makes you infinitely more resourceful. By sincerely appreciating what you have, you find new and valuable ways to make use of it.

A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost

If people maintain the belief systems that empower them, they'll keep coming back with enough action and enough resourcefulness to succeed eventually.

There are no unresourceful people, only unresourceful states.

When I haven't any blue I use red.

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.

People don't lack resources, they just lack control over their resources.

It's not the lack of resources that cause failure, it's the lack of resourcefulness that causes failure.

The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.

Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.

Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit;All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.

I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.