Quotation Explorer - 'Lack'

What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something. - Mother Teresa
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. - Sir Winston Churchill
The poorest are those who lack love, not money. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America, I don’t believe in God, but if I did I would say that sex is a Godgiven right. Otherwise it’s the end of our species. - Kevin Bacon
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. - Fran Lebowitz
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. - Hippocrates
Failure results from lack of focus and half trust. Success results from complete devotion and utmost trust. - Debasish Mridha
Most poverty is a lack of opportunity. - Adam LiVecchi
The lack of money is the root of all evil. - Mark Twain
I take it, though,...given the utter lack of change in your demeanor and nearly radiating I-just-slaughtered-a -bunch-of-infant-forest-animals guilt coming from your general direction...the exchange with your female friend went something a trifle short of fantastic. - Anihyr Moonstar
The bottom line is that you have to choose who you are going to commit to-- that's the foundation of true love, not the lack of other options - Stephenie Meyer
In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can't force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared together. - Shannon L. Alder
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? - Frank Herbert
True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What's sadder is when they are Christian. - Shannon L. Alder
The strange part about a person’s lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves. - David W. Earle
Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself. - Katelyn S. Bolds
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. - Oscar Levant
He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have. - Don Juan Manuel
You will never choose love greater than what you believe you deserve and what other insecure people tell your lack of self esteem to have faith in. - Shannon L. Alder
The first stage of ignorance is illusion, due to lack of exposure to reality. The second stage of ignorance is delusion, or the refusal to acknowledge reality. The third stage of ignorance is the rejection of altruism. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now? - Robert Louis Stevenson
Never let a lack of money keep you from living like a millionaire. - Marty Rubin
When someone reacts violently and aggressively, it only goes to demonstrate the lack of truth, trust and confidence in oneself and issue that we are defending. It rather portrays the guilt, shame and self anger for defending the indefensible. - Vishwas Chavan
She is the least benightedly unintelligent organic lifeform it has ever been my distinct lack of pleasure not to have been able to avoid meeting. - Douglas Adams
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. - Bertrand Russell
Our biggest obstacle to success is not the lack of opportunity but addiction to conformity. - Debasish Mridha
Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality. - Walter Kaufmann
Wilderness holds an original presence giving expression to that which we lack, the losses we long to recover, the absences we seek to fill. Wilderness revives the memory of unity. Through its protection we can find faith in our humanity. - Terry Tempest Williams
The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; - Albert Camus
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. - Isaac Asimov
OSHA's lack of law enforcement has made the USA a dangerous place to work. - Steven Magee
Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life. - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget that everyone is destined to share the sky together. - Shannon L. Alder
Don't name our stupidity, ignorance, stupid rules and lack of skills DESTINY! - Maliheh Sadat Razavi
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing. - Randy K. Milholland
One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens. - Bernard DeVoto
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Horses lend us the wings we lack.
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. - Bo Bennett
Do not avoid doing what you love because you fear that it will only result in poverty or lack. If you fear this, then this is exactly what will happen. - Stephen Richards
It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love. - Kieron Gillen
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself. - Jean Francois Revel
There is more than enough for everyone. Any idea of lack and so its experience comes from fear. Fear powers greed, which encourages people to save for later just for themselves. - Raphael Zernoff
It is lack of contentment that leads to corruption. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Social justice has to do with issues such as poverty, inequality, war, racism, sexism, abortion, and lack of concern for ecology because what lies at the root at each of these is not so much someone's private sin but rather a huge, blind system that is inherently unfair. - Ronald Rolheiser
a lack of communication is preferable to a profusion of miscommunications. - Sagey Malik
I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life. - James Branch Cabell
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
God is not ecstatic about the lack you are experiencing; He is not delightful over your failures, He is not happy about your stagnancy. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
In a relationship, no amount of extra effort on your part can make up for a lack of effort on theirs. - John Mark Green
Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision & perseverance to develop their talents. - Orrin Woodward
FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude. - Ambrose Bierce
Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason. - William Shakespeare
lack of sound mind and judgment the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions, is a matter of frustration and disillusionment to God - Sunday Adelaja
There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion - but it seems to be very difficult for people to understand this simple relationship. - Swami Dhyan Giten
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. - Richard Dawkins
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.
Never ever continue to complain of lack of time all the time for no one is in possession of all the time. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomachin a hangman’s noose. It is this same lack in noise that lives, there! in thedarkness of the grave, how it frightens me beyond all things. - Nathan Reese Maher
Augustine taught that true freedom is not choice or lack of constraint, but being what you are meant to be. Humans were created in the image of God. True freedom, then, is not found in moving away from that image but only in living it out. - Augustine of Hippo
In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one. - Mother Teresa
Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use. - Giuseppe Peano
Misunderstanding of divine truths or lack of understanding are the only things that mayprevent a man from becoming God’s representative on earth - Sunday Adelaja
EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. - Ambrose Bierce
With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon. - William Golding
True peaceful state is that when one has inner peace amidst total lack of peace on the outside. Bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst external turmoil is ‘tested’ samadhi. - Dada Bhagwan
Many people get visited by the Lord in a given time but lack the wisdom to navigate in it. - Paul Gitwaza
Patience is the gift of possibility. Time is merely an illusion. People lack patience, which is why time becomes their enemy. - Lionel Suggs
We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he is not a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. - Georges Clemenceau
It is ignorance or at least lack of consideration of heavenly things that make the temporal things of this world, whether good or evil, greater than they really are. - Tom Patton
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. - Paul Sweeney
You will lose not because of your abilities but because of your lack of desire to participate. - Debasish Mridha
Love is the cornerstone of all other emotions. We are greedy because we love something all too much. We are jealous because we love something another has. We hate because we lack it. - Melissa Gee
Unique feelings are so unique that they can not be popularized. Feelings without words in the dictionary disappear. Every year thousands of feelings disappear for lack of a concrete form. - Isidore Isou
Good and bad are illusions. What exists is either the presence of empathy or the lack of it. I think this should become the new, clear definition of how we see people. No more "good" and no more "bad". Those terms are highly subjective. - C. JoyBell C.
Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people. - Robert Higgs
Nigeria is a country with abundance of wealth, but because of lack of truth and integrity, the wealth are stolen, but the paradox of the whole thing is, this stolen wealth always find their way to nations with no apparent natural wealth, but with a high credit of degree of truth and honesty. - Sunday Adelaja
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. - Blaise Pascal
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. - Henry Miller
People lack morals, good moral character is important in every aspect of your life. Honesty and Integrity opens the door. Your character allows others to see you for who you truly are. Make your first impression a lasting impression. Ironically it may be your last impression - Amaka Imani Nkosazana
It is honor that makes commerce possible, dear brother. And the law courts, when men lack it. - Edward Cline
Our lives reflect our inner image. If we think we’re worth it, that worth will manifest in our lives. If we think we’re not worthy, we’ll live in lack. Believe your worth it and you will become worth it. - Toni Sorenson
Metaphorically, Tom said, if you take knowledge as light, and ignorance as dark, there does sometimes seem to be a real presence to the dark -- to ignorance. Something more tactile and muscley than just lack of knowledge. A sort of will to ignorance. It would explain some politicians. - Elizabeth Moon
Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination... - Himmilicious
Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary I know all the other words. None of them speak the same language that my fucking heart does. - Anis Mojgani
Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said.‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur. - Gabriel García Márquez
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Sticking to one person for a lifetime is not a waste of time or lack of better ones, it means you've found your place of eternity. - Michael Bassey Johnson
the lack of money is the ruler of purpose where mediocrity is the king of the mind - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. - Virginia Woolf
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse. - Unknown
Courage atrophies from lack of use. - Unknown
If I fail, I should not fail for lack of trying, but in spite. - Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee
The victimisation, I saw, was universal. It didn't depend on poverty, on lack of education or on tradition. It didn't depend on any of the things I had thought it depended on. Men took it everywhere with them. - Tsitsi Dangarembga
It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women...that we should be the ones who so desperately need love...affection...acceptance.And yet, we suffer...many of us, for lack of it throughout our entire lives."-Shackles of Honor - Marcia Lynn McClure
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact. - Terry Pratchett
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. - William Shakespeare
It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity. - Nelson Mandela
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. - Vince Lombardi Jr.
We only fear due to lack of faith. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't be ashamed for lack of knowledge. The real crime is having but not using it - Grant Walker
The world is old and full of lessons. We will not lack for examples. We only have to look around carefully, earnestly, so we can learn and realize that success, to be genuine, must not be propelled by greed. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. - Horace
I NEVER SAY I LACK TIME,I KNOW MY PRIORITY PRIME,I BELIEVE KILLING TIME IS CRIME,I WORK EVEN THEY DO CHIME,I HAVE PEOPLE WHO READ MY MIME - merlin8thomas
I have heard many times that atheists know more about religion than religious people. Atheism is an effect of that knowledge, not a lack of knowledge. I gave a Bible to my daughter. That's how you make atheists. - David Silverman
Lack of money is the root of all evil. - George Bernard Shaw
Songs of myselfClear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. - Walt Whitman
To expect the other people to spoon-feed you shows the lack of hunger, thirst or drive to push forward the things you desire to accomplish. - Euginia Herlihy
Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer. - Sunday Adelaja
Lack of culture equals to parallel lives, however through art, oneness, sanity and sense of belonging is restored. - Unarine Ramaru
Loving is effortless.. while Relationships, they require your time and patience... the two things we all lack.. - Sanhita Baruah
People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don’t know how to apply the principle of increase - Sunday Adelaja
A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it. - Vironika Tugaleva
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. - Potter Stewart
Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts. - Jean Vanier
Na, it's not about the human desires; it's about the desires being used to get rid of loneliness, insecurity and lack of love we often feel. - Saurabh Sharma
I am unable to tolerate’; to say this is the lack of ability to tolerate and ‘I am able to tolerate’ is itself the ability to tolerate. - Dada Bhagwan
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world. - Robert Penn Warren
Generations of parents have upheld this line if thinking. When a daughter showed a promise of talent, they saw it as a curse and worried that she would die young. Eventually, the very lack of talent became a sure sign of virtue for women. - He Zhen
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde
Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. - Ernest Hemingway
The people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. All you have to do is tell them that they are in danger of being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. - Hermann Goering
The problem is not a lack of churches, but a lack of true ministers, and believers that really are followers of Christ. - Evangelist Jordan Wells
Your discipline or lack of discipline will protect you from or expose you to disaster. Practice discipline. Be consistent. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Lack of spiritual desire should grieve us and lead us to lament its absence, to seek earnestly for its bestowal, so that our praying, henceforth, should be an expression of the soul's sincere desire. - E.M.Bounds
Homelessness is not the result of not having a house, it's lack of a soul in a body. - Goitsemang Mvula
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing. - Eric Hoffer
I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you. - J. R. R. Tolkien
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. - Oscar Wilde
He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear. - William Faulkner
Sin is merely the lack of Love - Gerard Bellarmino
As you meet the needs of others, you will never lack anything. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Lack of communication can drive a spike between two people wider than any physical distance. - Mark W. Boyer
A lack of love for humanity is our biggest enemy. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
Knowledge is Power, Power provides Information; Information leads to Education, Education breeds Wisdom; Wisdom is Liberation. People are not liberated because of lack of knowledge. - Israelmore Ayivor
There is nothing you lack and all you will find; we are one at the heart - just divided by mind. Don't let life pass you by. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
As discussed earlier, when it comes to music, most of us tend to have confidence in our taste even though we may totally lack knowledge regarding historical development or compositional theory. I frequently hear, "I don't know anything about art" but hardly ever, "I don't know anything about music". - Michael Findlay
Arguing that the only problem with a free market is lack of competition, is like arguing that that the only problem with prostitution is that there aren't enough pimps. - Quentin R. Bufogle
your lack of hard work fails your destiny and not the destiny fails you. - irrfan ishaq
lack of judgment frustrates the heart of God - Sunday Adelaja
Not always majority are correct sometimes it goes with a lack of understanding - Chief Justice Moalusi Tlotlo
Sizing up succinctly his lack of formal education compared with his determination to learn from others, the author writes, "I went to college with every person I ever met. - Chris Gardner
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. - Ken Hakuta
Some do not want to create rich experiences for others, others lack the ability to do so, but most just want to experience being rich, with little to no other experience. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, their lack of good fortunes or the quirks of fate. Everyone has within them the power to say, "This I am today, that I shall become tomorrow." The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds. - Louis L'Amour
Sometimes, the common reason for fights in a strong relationship is only the lack of having attention from the loving on - Pawan Mehra
The poor lack much, the greedy everything. - Publilius Syrus
I honestly think that depression, unhappiness or the feeling of emptiness is more a lack of amazement about life than anything else. - Jellis Vaes
How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life.[Written to his wife, Mileva] - Albert Einstein
The reason that the little things are more important than the big ones, turns out to be very simple: one can fake the big things in one’s behaviour, but not the little things. The little things lack the three f’s: feigning, fabrication, fakeness. Plus the most important c: contrivance. - Nicos Hadjicostis
Too many young Indigenous members of our community are being caught up in the criminal justice system, with an increasing number of cases resulting in notably unjust and undue outcomes, primarily due to the lack of resources available - Abdullah Reslan Lawyer
The effects of lack of democracy and the rule of law is a problem that does not discriminate, whether you are a corporation or a start-up, rich or poor, educated or illiterate, employed or unemployed. - Allan Amanyire
As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity. - Richelle E. Goodrich
We had been with the men, we had let them do what they wanted. But they would never know the parts of ourselves that we hid from them - they would never sense the lack or even know there was something more they should be looking for. - Emma Cline
Depression is not the lack of happiness, it's the imbalance of it. - Joshua Wimbush
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots - Albert Einstein
I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity. - Friedrich Nietzsche
By lack of understanding they remained insane. - George Orwell
I hate to be wrong. It makes me feel like a failure. Being wrong has the same affect on me as a lack of food or sleep. It lowers my entire mood. But, I need to be proved wrong sometimes, as it restores humility, and doesn't allow my ego to swell to stupidly big sizes. - Paul Kelly
The Lack of perseverance and effort isn't called Destiny ! - Shahryar Barani
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. - W. Clement Stone
There is no shame in ignorance, only in denying it. By knowing what we do not know, we can take steps to remedy our lack of knowledge - Graham McNeill
If we are discouraged because we lack repentance and excuse ourselves by saying that it does not lie in our power to obtain a contrite heart, because repentance can only be granted as a miracle of the Holy Spirit, it is a sign that our thinking has been clouded by the Enemy. - M. Basilea Schlink
(Vice President) Garner has taken his personal smallness, his lack of generosity, and forged it into a political principle. He has no imagination, no convictions, and he substitutes political cynicism for social understanding. - Hamilton Basso
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep - A.P. Herbert
Tell the truth about any situation & you are delivered from lack of progress, but become hypocritical or lying, and you may be in bondage for life. - Auliq-Ice
Insecurity is lack of self love. When your fountain of self love is alive, you will be one with people. - Vishwas Chavan
Most so-called brave people lack imagination. As though they can’t conceive of what would happen if something went wrong. The truly brave overcome their imagination and do what they have to do. 2 - Charles Bukowski
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. - Woody Allen
In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.
On the journey to self discovery be grateful for the fools along the way. Their lack of kindness fueled your success ~bns - Bluenscottish
Politics is the art of persuasion. Good ideas die because due to a lack of charisma or character. - A.E. Samaan
What is the difference between disrespect (avinay) and despise (viradhana)? Disrespect (avinay) means one shows lack of respect and to despise (viradhana) means one becomes an adversary (opponent). - Dada Bhagwan
Everything we could possibly want or need is there for the taking, but we are blinded by fears of lack and limitation, and we have bought the lie that resources are limited, so we must therefore compete for the few that are left. - Stephen Richards
Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul's potential. - Shannon L. Alder
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to. - Mamur Mustapha
The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience. - Oswald Chambers
If I could out run the Angel of Death I'd probably die from lack of breath! - Stanley Victor Paskavich
There is a very, narrow, thinness of line between the living and the dead; actually, it's just a lack of a heartbeat away. - Wes Adamson
When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you. - Sidney Madwed
Unhappiness means lack of control. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
gratitudenoun \ˈgra-tə-ˌtüd, -ˌtyüd\ 1. The word thrown in your face by people who covet what you want and believe that your lack of contentment is a sin. Often, these people believe success is what you have already and obtaining anything else is optional, but not required. - Shannon L. Alder
When a society begins to lack men that, that they stand up against the collapse of equity in their land that is the kind of thing that brings sorrow to the heart of our King - Sunday Adelaja
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. - Mignon McLaughlin
To describe what I feel for you would lack the words, I love you more than I can explain. - Auliq Ice
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory. - Elbert Hubbard
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones. - Plato
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. - Terry Pratchett
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance. - Bronnie Ware
Fear, anger, jealousy, hatred of self and others are the outcomes of the lack of connectivity with your inner self. Connecting with your inner self and awakening your inner sensuality is not a luxury anymore, but it has become the necessity. - Vishwas Chavan
Don't let lack of sexual communication get in the way of your pleasure any longer. Dare to ask the questions that will make sex so much more enjoyable, boost passion, and facilitate a deeper connection and intimacy in your relationship. - Miya Yamanouchi
As I explored my soul, now I know I have survived schizophrenia; hearing voices, reduced social engagement, emotional expression and lack of motivation. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes letting go is not about a lack of faith in God, but a lack in faith that you have it in yourself to pull off the greatest plan he has in store for you. - Shannon L. Alder
Awareness about lack of knowledge is the most useful knowledge. - Debasish Mridha
We often seek beauty in the outside, in the unknown, and often lack to realize the sheer beauty right in front of our very eyes, back home. - Akilnathan Logeswaran
If you find a community with less production and less inspiring inventions, then know it is a sign of lack of Business Leaders and full of General Managers do not know what they can manage or what they are managing. - Sameh Elsayed
The rather difficult antagonists towards the Faith consist not nearly of the cruel and heartless, nihilistic intellectuals who hate God and humanity, but the well-meaning spirits who for the most part lack Spiritual understanding. - Criss Jami
A lack of giving in the life of a person will bring him to poverty. - Sunday Adelaja
These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never disappointed. - J.G. Ballard
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction. - Fulton J. Sheen
God stipulates in the Bible that Jesus Followers are to love and serve everyone regardless of their faith or lack of it. But, this does not require us to honour and respect their Biblically-heinous cultural practises like multiculturalism does! - Gary Patton
What you give, you will get it back.So give love, just to not feel the lack. - Debasish Mridha
Timing is only lack of enough emotions. - Shannon L. Alder
It is not the lack of commitment that destroys marriages, it is the lack of purpose. - Debasish Mridha
Those who lack courage are often the first to discourage. - Robert J. Braathe
And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose. - Zelda Fitzgerald
Complaining from lack of food doesn't always affect my emotions. complaining from lack of knowledge, passion, creative ideas and happiness always does. - Sameh Elsayed
Blindly believing something often comes from societal conformity which is a sign of a lack of deep knowledge and imaginative consciousness. - Debasish Mridha
You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest. - John Berryman
When people lack true culture or are devoid of innovative ideas, they speak about wine, various brands of alcoholic beverages, or the quality of soap. - Dimitris Mita
For a lack of education, a child's future may hold no fortune. - Dennis E. Adonis
Our vision is often more abstracted by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge. - Krister Stendahl
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. - Flannery O'Connor
Lack of commitment is the main reason for failure among Christian leaders - Sunday Adelaja
If my journey was so easy, I would have missed out on life's invaluable lessons. From misery I learnt to comfort those in tears, from lack I learnt to give to the needy; from uncertainty I learnt to understand others and from my silence I learnt to listen to the voiceless. - Gugu Mona
Fornication and adultery unleash destructive consequences into a person's life:• Poverty;• Lack of perception;• Loss of respect and mutual acceptance;• Children with shattered futures;• Dullness of the senses and of the intellect;• Deterioration of health. - Sunday Adelaja
the progress of real purpose is crippled where lack of money is equated to lack of zeal - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Desperation is not an evidence of hard work, it's a sign of lack of faith - Constance Friday
Bengal is poor not because of lack of capital but lack of ideas and vision. - Debasish Mridha
In arguing, what people lack in intellect they usually make up for in name-calling. - C Vallo
Never trust a person that doesn't trust you... If they lack trust they don't have faith in you. If they lack faith then they don't esteem you highly. If they lack esteem for you than how can you expect them to treat you fairly? - Ana Marie Velazquez
If my journey was so easy, I would have missed out on life's invaluable lessons. From misery I learnt to comfort those in tears, from lack I learnt to give to the needy; from uncertainty I learnt to understand others and from my silence I learnt to speak for the voiceless. - Gugu Mona
What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile. - Hermann Hesse
When Life teaches you a lesson, write it down and use it ASAP. Many destinies have failed because of lack of attention to important details. - Asuni LadyZeal
You’ll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That’s when you know you’re a writer when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again. - Markus Zusak
Raging over something that is invaluable can portray an individual's sense of immaturity and lack of understanding about his or her actual needs for survival. - Saaif Alam
Sometimes, the common reason for fights in a strong relationship is only the lack of having attention from the loving one - Pawan Mehra
Fear comes from the lack of knowledge and a state of ignorance. The best remedy for fear is to gain knowledge. - Debasish Mridha
The hardest mistakes to learn from are those that lack consequence. - Jasper Sole
There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us? - Frank Herbert
When you are not full of the Holy Spirit, you easily cower in fear and lack a stand on truth - Paul Gitwaza
Atheism is not synonymous with anti-theism and not all atheists are 'active.' There are many non-believers who aren’t activists, who don’t oppose religion at all, or who are simply not all are interested in discussing belief or lack thereof. - David G. McAfee
The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method. - Jack Kerouac
Both sadness and anger are the two sides of same coin. Sadness is supressed anger, while anger is expressed sadness. Both sadness and anger are state of unhappiness, which are often because lack of self-love. - Vishwas Chavan
The reason for the absence of success is not because of lack of money but because of theabsence of the understanding of the principles of success - Sunday Adelaja
Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money. - Barbara Ehrenreich
Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so. - James Hudson Taylor
The beauty of life is not a lack of darkness, but it is in the presence of light. - Debasish Mridha
The lack of forgiveness and ingratitude leads unhappiness - Lailah Gifty Akita
Most so-called brave people lack imagination. As though they can’t conceive of what would happen if something went wrong. The truly brave overcome their imagination and do what they have to do. - Charles Bukowski
The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility.... - Edmund Crispin
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general. - Sunday Adelaja
Depart, Satan,' she said, with a complete lack of enthusiasm. Bats 2015 - Fred Barnett
In my hands I held gold dust and tarnished rust, but looking further in, I saw the few diamonds I've come to know as soul mates in my life. They sparkled a little brighter and I'd notice the lack of weight if they were gone. They would leave not as a loss, but as a hole in my palm. - Hubert Martin
The lack of truth in one's words and actions is manifested in the failed attempts at success. Without integrity, reinvention has no impact~ - Bluenscottish
Cheer up and dry your damp eyes,And tell me when it rains,And I'll blend up that rainbow above you & shoot it through your veins...'Cause your heart has a lack of color,And we should've known That we'd grow up sooner or later,'Cause we wasted all our free time alone. <3 - Owl City
People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don’t know how to apply the principle of increase is practically inevitable. - Sunday Adelaja
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
If you think money is an obstacle, that shows that you still lack wisdom. - Sunday Adelaja
A burdened heart doesn't equate to a lack of faith. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob can heal with a simple command. The burden comes from wondering if that's His will and may it be done. - Donna Lynn Hope
A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly. - Garry Chapman
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. - Richard Dawkins
Love is a combination of virtues. The amount you receive from someone is based on the percentage of those virtues learned and applied. Unhappiness in a relationship is not a lack of love, but a lack of virtues in the percentages your significant other needs. - Shannon L. Alder
Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle. - Billy Graham
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
Your responsibility is to not question God’s actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God’s character. - Jim George
If you learn how to value time, you will have enough. If you don’t value time, then you will suffer from the lack of time. - Debasish Mridha
If you don't think the wheel should be reinvented then you are suffering from the lack of creative imagination. - Matthew Donnelly
When religious people take the stance that they don’t owe anyone that is hurting closure or answers then God is not winning. Conflict continues because of lack of communication, fear and indifference. - Shannon L. Alder
They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it's lack of originality. - Elizabeth Blade
More people die from the hunger of love than from the lack of food. - Debasish Mridha
Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food. - T.K. Naliaka
The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father. - Jean de La Bruyère
Lack of luxury is not a reason to push others to poverty. ~ Michael A. van Doorn, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul - Angelica Hopes
The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. - Albert Camus
Nostalgia dies in the pit of my throat from lack of exercise and I buried the word six feet under the pronunciation of hopeful tomorrows. - Taylor Patton
Insofar as men gain time, ease, independence, or liberty from women's domestic labors, they lack incentive to change. - Linda P. Rouse
Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours. - Ilyas Kassam
You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. - Timothy Leary
Loneliness is not lack of companion; it is the absence of the right people in our life. That is why we are alone even among the people. - M.F. Moonzajer
If in doubt,trust your instincts because either you are right or lack the bite to fix it right. - Asim kayani
Cowgirl Courage isn't the lack of fear, but the courage to take action in the face of fear. - J.H. Lee
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood. - Tom Hanks
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it. - Robert F. Kennedy
Many of the habits of dysfunctional families use are not from the lack of love but are the result of fear. Knowing the love-limiting habits and behaviors of dysfunctional families is a wonderful beginning to lower the fear, allowing us to be real, allowing us all to learn how to love better. - David W. Earle
Any lack of joy in the world is the result of disobedience. - Carolyn Shields
The problem in todays world is that people lack trust in goodness. - Amit Abraham
The problem isn't a shortage of opportunities; it's a lack of perspective. - Tim Fargo
It is not because of setbacks that most entrepreneurs do not reach the finishing line, but because of a lack of willpower and motivation. - Danny Mekić
In a democratic society freedom of expression and information are protected and government lack of concern in protecting them is a serious issue. - Arzak Khan
As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive. - Muriel Rukeyser
Trust in your story, it's powerful enough. Oftentimes, it is not the lack of power that is our struggle; but it is our unawareness of the power that we do have, which is our biggest hurdle to surmount. - C. JoyBell C.
Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of their lack of courage and insecurities. - Shannon L. Alder
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. - Norman Vincent Peale
It is strangely wonderful to feel the lack of something instead of believing that it was never there in the first place. - Kevin Wilson
Your relationship or lack of relationship with God through Jesus Christ continues after your last breath on this earth. - Alisa Hope Wagner
Lack of purpose, not lack of opportunity, is the problem. We are all blessed with different gifts. Everything depends on what you do with yours - Ane Krstevska
Confidents we all lack but remember, you are beautiful, you are smart and this world was meant for you to be in it so please have heart.. - Alcurtis Turner
The lack of understanding does not hurt, as much as the lack of effort to understand does ! - Wordions
We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms,or our faith or lack of faith,but only with what God has said - Gordon Lindsay
It is difficult to cultivate a healthy relationship in a landscape overgrown with blame, lack of trust, and betrayal - Saji Ijiyemi
Your lack of commitment to being different is what kills you. It is the insanity of doing the same thing every time and expecting a different result that wastes your time. - Shannon L. Alder
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. - Albert Camus
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. - Jack Kerouac
RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth. He held at court a rank so high That other noblemen asked why. "Because," 'twas answered, "others lack His skill to scratch the royal back." Aramis Jukes - Ambrose Bierce
The key to failure is, lack of self discipline. - Sivaprakash Sidhu Sivaprakash G Sivaprakash Gopal, sivaprakash sidhu, sivaprakash
A lack of empathy is the greatest crime of all. - Aaron Lauritsen
Assuming that all ‘unschooled’ people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the only means to make money, or, that a vagina or a penis is the only source of an orgasm. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
All attributes of the relative self (prakrut) in the world have arisen due to lack of understanding. All this has arisen due to not understanding the truth. One has been wandering around for countless lives and still one considers oneself so great! - Dada Bhagwan
The very way that you think is a crucial component to your overall health and well being. Living towards the negative will only foster conflict and a sense of lack, while living towards the positive will create more opportunity for you to experience harmony and abundance. - Gary Hopkins
Many folks describe arrogant people as jerks, idiots, creeps, and much worse. A person that treats you like you are stupid and says the only right way is their way even when it clearly is not is arrogant. They try to make up for their own lack of confidence by hammering away at others. - Stephen Richards
Occupational Safety & Health Administration's (OSHA) lack of law enforcement has made the USA a dangerous place to work. - Steven Magee
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. - Zig Ziglar
We have a retirement crisis in America today nor from a lack of money, but from a lack of vision - Dave Ramsey
Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. - Vince Lombardi
Loneliness is not lack of company. Loneliness is lack of purpose. - Guillermo Maldonado
When Your Smile At Someone's Misery, Its Does Not Shows Your Tolerance. Its Reveals lack of Tears For Feeling. - Yaganesh Derasari
If you're ever feeling a lack of middle-aged white men, just pop into the Capitol. Not so much the House of Representatives, which has a bit more color and texture, but the Senate -- jeez. Yes, let's have more testosterone running the country.Maximum Ride, School's Out--Forever - James Patterson
To forgive others, in order to forgive ourselves, because in their roles as our mirrors, they have been nothing other than a tool to our lack of self-love, a lack of self-recognition, and a lack of self-respect. - Human Angels
surround yourself with people who allow you to be yourself, it does not mean be around others who do not have a sense of right or wrong, who lack respect, love and compassion for others. - Tasha Hoggatt
Those leaders who fail, lack the capability to resonate their idea & thoughts - Aayush Jain
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. - Oscar Wilde
Sometimes we fail to see what others see and emphasise on what they lack to see. The I of a different eye. - Goitsemang Mvula
Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself. - Michael Bassey Johnson
A lack of empathy is the biggest crime of all. - A.S.L.
You are never in lack, you are always in fullness, realize it and live it. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books - Theodore Roosevelt
People die from lack of shared empathy and affinity. By establishing social connectedness, we give hope a chance and the other can become heaven. ( "Le ciel c'est l'autre" ) - Erik Pevernagie
Great things seem complex and cause the nations to rush towards the minor things that seem easy to reach, hence, they perish. And again my memory echoes…my people die for lack of knowledge. - Blaise Tshibwabwa
If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. - Ann Landers
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. - William Shakespeare
In America, disagreement with the policies of the government does not necessitate a lack of patriotism! - Senator Mitchell
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. - Winston S. Churchill
The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil. - Stefan Molyneux
Sometimes what you see is not real, and the reality is not what you see. Somewhere between both these reasoning resides a fact: where there is a lack of trust and confidence, perception will always differ with reality. - Ashish Patel
Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats. - François de La Rochefoucauld
It is lack of communication that leads to unhappy marriage. - Lailah Gifty Akita
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