Quotes of Insufficiency - somelinesforyou

“ Education, n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. ”

- Bible

“ Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ”

- Timothy Leary

“ Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost. ”

- Buddha

“ She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are. ”

- Richard Henry Stoddard

“ She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself. ”

- Anais Nin

“ It's not a lack of preparation. ”

- Brian Greene

“ Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. ”

- Michael O’Brien

“ Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ”

- Robert Frost

“ The simple lack of her is more to me than others presence. ”

- Edward Thomas

“ People do not lack strength; they lack will. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do. ”

- George Linnaeus Banks

“ My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants. ”

- J. Brotherton

“ Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. ”

- Buddha

“ Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. ”

- Henry Miller

“ It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all — liberty! ”

- James Monroe

“ What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length. ”

- Charles de Montesquieu

“ Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ A life lived with integrity — even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. ”

- Denis Waitley

“ I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time. ”

- Aneurin Bevan

“ Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol. ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons. ”

- Leonard Neal

“ Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. ”

- Buddha
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