Lack Quotes

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. (Plutarch)
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Nobody dies from lack of sex, it's lack of love we die from. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. View quote
Confucius
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. View quote
George S. Patton
Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. View quote
Timothy Leary
Optimism is lack of information. View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
Lack of money is the root of all evil. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. View quote
Richard Wright
People do not lack strength; they lack will. View quote
Victor Hugo
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it. View quote
Germaine Greer
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. View quote
Marguerite Duras
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. View quote
Ernest Renan
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. (Jack Kerouac)
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. View quote
Woody Allen
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