Quotes about Resourcefulness

Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out

Make the best of what you've got; play the cards you are dealt. Walt Disney once said, "There is no education like adversity." However, to gain this education you must be tough enough to overcome adversity rather than allowing adversity to overcome you.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

With independents[films] you sort of make them on the go and there is that little bit more creative freedom. You don't have the money to slow down!

Ordinary people knock on doors, warriors break them down, but sages enter through the window.

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.

Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can't drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can't have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

First develop a strategy that utilizes everything around you. The best way to prepare for a challenge is to cultivate the ability to call on an infinite variety of responses.

So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water from the river.

Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”