Top 1200 Lack Quotes & Sayings

Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision and perseverance to develop their talents.

It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself.

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.

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

What I hear every day on talk radio is America's lack of education - and I don't mean lack of college degrees. I mean lack of the basic art of democracy, the ability to seek the great truths that can come only by synthesizing the small truths possessed by each of us.

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.

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

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.

Fear is a lack of love, just as darkness is a lack of light.

I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern.

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.

It's one thing to talk about lack of diversity and lack of representation. But that doesn't matter if you're not good at what you're supposed to be doing.

It was lack of good scripts and lack of time for daily serials, for which I consciously stayed away from TV.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful.

When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

You cannot have the financial system crippled because of lack of decision making and lack of quality people.

Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do

This is a great nation at terrible risk in a dangerous world, and she has fully exposed this nation and will continue to do so because of her utter incompetence and Hillary Clinton lack of care, lack of attention, lack of concern.

The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.

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.

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.

Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation.

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 will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.

If I were to look at the church of Jesus Christ in America today, I would say our greatest problem is not that we lack the resources to do things, not that we lack the models, the programs, and the plans, but that we lack conformity to the image of Jesus Christ.

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

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.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.

If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.

More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.

The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder

The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

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.

There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely the responsibility of a director but also a producer.

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.

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.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.

The country is dying cause of an lack of men, not a lack of programms.

I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

If death turned out to be a lack of being rather than a lack of consciousness, well, then, that sucked.

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.

I entered my egg-freezing adventure from a feeling of lack - a lack of fertility, of the right partner, of biological time. But this perceived lack actually produced abundance - of options, time, peace of mind, and microscopic chances of a child.

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

My biggest problem with everything going on is the lack of understanding and the lack of respect in this world.

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.