Resourcefulness Quotes

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

  Tony Robbins

  Causes, Resources

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• It's not about the resources you have available. It's about the resourcefulness you have within you.

  Tony Robbins

  Resources, Within You, Available

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

  Tony Robbins

  Motivation, Inspiration, Defining

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• The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.

  William C. Menninger

  Inspirational, Self, People

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• Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

  Aldous Huxley

  Character, Fighting, Self

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.111, Ivan R. Dee

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

  Tony Robbins

  Differences, Resources

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2017

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

  Tony Robbins

  Leader, Inner Strength, Matter

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• However desperate the situation and circumstances, don't despair. When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When surrounded by dangers, fear none of them. When without resources, depend on resourcefulness. When surprised, take the enemy by surprise.

  Sun Tzu

  Mma, Enemy, Despair

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• To achieve more and better results, more resourcefulness is as important as more resources.

  Tony Alessandra

  Important, Achieve, Results

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• Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

  Naomi Wolf

  Kids, Thinking, Resilience

  "This pampered private school elite can only lead to US decline" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2012.

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• Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Tony Robbins

  Resources

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• When you agree to collaborate, you agree to jump off a cliff holding hands with everyone, hoping the resourcefulness of each will insure that you all land on your feet.

  Frank Gehry

  Hands, Land, Feet

  "'Available Light' Interviews: Frank Gehry, Lucinda Childs, and John Adams". Interview with Julie Lazar, www.kcet.org.

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• ...as your father, my instinct is to protect you ... Other people will want to protect you too. But remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget the prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.

  Brad Meltzer

  Father, People, Waiting

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• Ability is the result of mental and physical toughness, resourcefulness, and powerful concentration.

  Howard A. Tullman

  Powerful, Results, Concentration

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• I do believe that out of adversity comes incredible resourcefulness.

  Phil Keoghan

  Believe, Adversity, Incredibles

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different--in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Should Have, People

  "The Number of the Beast". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, p. 134, 1980.

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• Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

  George Meany

  Doubt, Bills, Ingenuity

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• You don't lack resources. You lack resourcefulness .

  Tony Robbins

  Resources

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• There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

  Scott Adams

  Idiot, Dilbert, Danger

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.439, Penguin

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

  Tony Robbins

  People, Empowering, Succeed

  Tony Robbins (2008). “Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and your resourcefulness to help end such abuses for good, and when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Christian, Cancer, Lying

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• A very good case can be made, on moral as well as economic grounds, for a system in which the individual is required to stand on his own feet, not to lean on the state for handouts. Character, resourcefulness, capacity are formed and developed in struggle with obstacles, not in waiting passively for benefits from outside.

  William Henry Chamberlin

  Struggle, Character, Feet

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• Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Motivational, Mistake, Inspiration

  Maxwell Maltz, Kelli M. Gary (1983). “PRINCIPLES CRE LVG”, Pocket

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• From my point of view, he can be called a remarkable man who stands out from those around him by the resourcefulness of his mind, and who knows how to be restrained in the manifestations which proceed from his nature, at the same time conducting himself justly and tolerantly towards the weaknesses of others.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Views, Mind

  G. I. Gurdjieff (1991). “Meetings with Remarkable Men”, p.30, Penguin

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