45 Quotes About Resourcefulness

Knowing where to go for the things you need can make your life easier. These quotes about resourcefulness go to prove the value of keeping things together.

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

“Addicts have incredible energy, it’s just all directed toward one goal. But what incredible luck and grace addicts have.”

“America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.”

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

“Apparently there’s nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.”

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”

“Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence of resourcefulness ; that you can deal with whatever is available around you and not feel poverty stricken.”

“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.”

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

“Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or into a canoe and heading for the hills or lakes.”

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

“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.”

“I do believe that out of adversity comes incredible resourcefulness.”

“I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.”

“I don’t think I have ever been as inspired by any character that I have played. I was deeply moved by Temple’s courage and her resourcefulness.”

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

“If we examine the accomplishments of man in his most advanced endeavors, in theory and in practice, we find that the cell has done all this long before him, with greater resourcefulness and much greater efficiency.”

“I’m very resourceful. I’d be good in prison. I’d be good in a shipwreck. I’d make a great hostage.”

“It’s not about the resources you have available. It’s about the resourcefulness you have within you.”

“It’s not about your resources, it’s about your resourcefulness .”

“It’s not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.”

“It’s not the lack of resources that cause failure, it’s the lack of resourcefulness that causes failure.”

“Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.”

“Living with animals can be a wonderful experience, especially if we choose to learn the valuable lessons animals teach through their natural enthusiasm, grace, resourcefulness, affection and forgiveness.”

“No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.”

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

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”

“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.”

“Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work.”

“Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage,
resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships.”

“Sophistication” is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.”

“Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.”

“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.”

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

“The longer we stay in a violating situation, the more traumatized we become. If we don’t act on our own behalf, we will lose spirit, resourcefulness, energy, health, perspective, and resilience.”

“The resilience and the resourcefulness of people to make a better life, to survive, to give their children something better than they had, is so inspiring.”

“There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.”

“Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.”

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

“We should stop looking to law to provide the final answer…. Law cannot save us from ourselves…. We have to go out and try to accomplish our goals and resolve disagreements by doing what we think is right.”

“Westerns aren’t about the gunfight, even though it has to be there at one point. It’s not what they’re about, at least the good ones. It’s about the drama. It’s about the resourcefulness of men and women.”

“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.”

“When you don’t have resources, you become resourceful.”

“Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them.”

“You don’t lack resources. You lack resourcefulness.”

Resourcefulness for many means you have an ability to see possibilities that others can not.