Quotes about Resourcefulness
Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.
— John Wooden
He is poor, who has need of another, and has not from himself all things that are useful for life.
— Marcus Aurelius
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
— John Maxwell
If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.
— Tina Fey
I aint drinkin after no mule, said the hermit. Have you not got no old bucket nor nothin?
— Cormac McCarthy
We should remember Christ's words, 'Let nothing be wasted,' when we look in our refrigerators and garbage cans and garages.
— Randy Alcorn
Jesus replied, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?
— Mark 2:25
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out
— John Wooden
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.
— Benjamin Disraeli
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
— Zig Ziglar
Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime. Changing the world may not be so daunting after all.
— Mike Breen
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.
— Dorothy Sayers