When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.
One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort of emotion in people. The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price.
Very few people are conscious of the deeper strata of eternity. The primary reason is either because they lack purity or they lack motivation.
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.
Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
Lack of true progress may not be a result of not doing what one is supposed to, but lack of focused effort trying not to do too much.
Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.
What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.
There is no lack in the world. The lack is in you , and if you will stop seeking lack and stop thinking lack... you will make marvelous demonstrations.
Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.
If the thought of lack -whether it be money, recognition, or love has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.
If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.
The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.
When someone is bothered by someone claiming lack of drinking water, lack of medicine for the sick, and lack of food for the hungry, that person has problems too deep to be explained in an interview.
Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.
It's not the lack of resources that cause failure, it's the lack of resourcefulness that causes failure.