Top 100 Lack Quotes
#1. If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.
Frederic Chopin
#2. I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.
Tom Stoppard
#3. Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations.
Imran Khan
#4. Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.
Charles Koch
#5. There is a lack of agency here - a feeling that you have little control over your life and a willingness to blame everyone but yourself.
J.D. Vance
#6. Valuing ourselves rightly means we understand love to be the only foundation of being that will sustain us in both times of lack and times of plenty
Bell Hooks
#7. We have time, but we might lack priorities.
Ben Tolosa
#8. Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.
Greg Graffin
#9. 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
#10. There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.
Lindsay Wagner
#11. There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.
John Noble
#12. Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.
Janeane Garofalo
#13. your lack of knowledge may not for you but surely it is dangerous for your child because you cannot teach them which you your self do not know
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#14. Is the most deadly of all evils, you can die of love or lack of it.
Lauren Oliver
#15. The poor lack money. They lack money because they do not know the secret of productive wealth. They know it is possible to be old, unemployed, uneducated, lazy - even halt, deaf, dumb, and blind-and still be excessively rich. But you have to be in on the secret, and the poor by definition are not.
Louis O. Kelso
#16. The essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste.
Ann Bridge
#17. Obedience isn't a lack of fear. It's just doing it scared.
Jen Hatmaker
#18. So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.
Thierry Henry
#19. In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers.
Jose Serrano
#20. In practice, a large market will either lack a good starting point or it will be open to competition,
Peter Thiel
#22. The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#23. I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
Damien Hirst
#24. Worry comes from a lack of purpose. It comes from not having a big "why" for your life.
Bruce Van Horn
#25. Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.
Rachel Maddow
#26. My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.
Joyce Carol Oates
#27. Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.
Emma Goldman
#28. In the insurance business, 93 percent of those who become insurance agents don't stick it out past three years. These people who quit usually lack mental toughness. I've learned over the years that perseverance will win out - every time - over talent.
Jerry Hraban
#29. A person like this is a blessing for the world. And there is no reason why you couldn't be that person. Why aren't you that person now? Because of these walls of self-protection you've built, these attitudes of limit and lack.
Norman Fischer
#30. Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm.
Marvin Olasky
#31. The more she talked that way, the worse I felt. She highlighted my awkwardness, my lack of knowledge about the right things to say and do. I was a blundering adolescent in her eyes, and she was trying to let me down easy.
Daniel Keyes
#32. Patriotism is an artificial, bordered "love" designed to create a distinct lack of love for those on the other side of the borders.
Adam Kokesh
#33. The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.
Melanne Verveer
#34. One of the things that drive the various reductionist programs about mind, value, and meaning, in spite of their inherent implausibility, is the lack of any comprehensive alternative.
Thomas Nagel
#35. Lack of skill dictates economy of style.
Joey Ramone
#36. I rolled my eyes. "Do all narcotics officers lack basic human
compassion, or were you just not hugged enough as a child?"
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L.A. Witt
#37. Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning.
David Bornstein
#38. I don't remember my mother. She died when I was one year old. My distracted and callous sensibility comes from the lack of that warmth and from my useless longing after kisses I don't remember.
Fernando Pessoa
#39. Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.
Paulo Coelho
#40. 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
#41. I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.
Ian Somerhalder
#43. I am not convinced that lack of encryption is the primary problem. The problem with the Internet is that it is meant for communications among non-friends.
Whitfield Diffie
#44. Where there is lack of faith, There is a lack of respect. Employ reticence, and care with words. When the work is done and the task complete The people will say: 'It just happened.
Lao-Tzu
#45. Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?
Margaret Atwood
#46. You don't serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I'll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness is a sign of your nearness to God. We help overcome this lack of effectiveness simply by suffering on account of it.
Flannery O'Connor
#47. A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
Napoleon Hill
#48. To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have to kill him or her. You surrender ... You only demonstrate your lack of capacity, your helplessness. This is failure.
Nhat Hanh
#49. I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.
Linus Torvalds
#50. Americans believe that the bottom line isn't everything, it's the only thing, and America is strangling on that lack of vision."13 Bennis also noted, "It isn't either a bull or a bear market anymore, it's a pig market."14
Richard Blackaby
#51. Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and strengthened.
Sharon Salzberg
#52. The Australian is forcefully loquacious, until the moment of expressing any emotion. He is aggressively committed to equality and equal-opportunity for all men, except for black Australians. He has high assurance in anything he does combined with a gnawing lack of confidence in anything he thinks.
Robin Boyd
#53. Everything that I've accomplished in life was because of America and because of California, so I should take seven years out of my life to be a public servant and to serve the people of California regardless of the lack of pay.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#54. I believe in discipline. You can forgive incompetence. You can forgive lack of ability. But one thing you cannot ever forgive is lack of discipline.
Forrest Gregg
#55. Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.
Jean Francois Revel
#56. When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed.
Frederick Lenz
#57. I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
Tom Hanks
#58. Love knows no bodies, and reaches to everything created like itself. Its total lack of limit is its meaning. It is completely impartial in its giving, encompassing only to preserve and keep complete what it would give.
Foundation For Inner Peace
#59. I love superheroes and I love weird horror films ... I could definitely feel that there was a lack of movies like The Martian being made: smart genre movies that can appeal to adults.
Drew Goddard
#60. A Freudian would claim to know what they have and I lack, but intelligence is not situated in the crotch -
Rebecca Solnit
#61. That lack of value sense would deprive a person from a protective instinct.
Sunday Adelaja
#62. Any lack of joy in the world is the result of disobedience.
Carolyn Shields
#63. No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist.
Haruki Murakami
#64. With the complete lack of shame of the extremely deaf and the complete lack of grammar of the extremely inbred.
Lauren Willig
#65. The dear Lord has favored us with a share of His cross. The greatest and undoubtedly the hardest to bear is the lack of success in our work here. If a saint had been in charge, all would have gone well.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
#66. From anger comes delusion - delusion in turn leads to loss of memory - loss of memory leads to loss of reason (error in judgment) And ultimately loss of reason (lack of discrimination) ruins a person.
Commander VK Jaitly
#67. I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.
Ritchie Blackmore
#68. 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.
Orlando Bloom
#69. No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
Anton Chekhov
#70. Some researchers consider lack of exercise to be a greater risk factor for decreased life expectancy than the combined risks posed by cigarette smoking, obesity, hypertension, and high cholesterol.
Rich Snyder DO
#71. I think there's a lack of understanding which is partly our fault as scientists and physicians in not communicating well enough with the public. But there's a lack of understanding of how important biomedical research is.
Laurie Glimcher
#73. One of the things that really worries me, in part about Mexico, in part about Latin America, and in part about the Hispanic population in the U.S. and Canada. It's the lack of awareness of this whole science world.
Juan Enriquez
#74. It is not a scientific proposition to determine that some cultures lack political power because they show nothing similar to what is found in our culture. It is instead the sign of a certain conceptual poverty.
Pierre Clastres
#75. Perhaps it's not theology we're missing, but rather theological integrity. Many have the knowledge but lack the courage to admit the discrepancy between what we know and how we live.
Francis Chan
#76. Bengal is poor not because of lack of capital but lack of ideas and vision.
Debasish Mridha
#77. One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.
L. Tom Perry
#78. What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools to prepare their charges for work only and not for life. As such, literature is construed as at best technically useless and random, at worst socially disruptive.
Gwee Li Sui
#79. True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It's knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn't.
Charles Colson
#80. Today's marriages become toxic, with resentments, after only a few years. It's one thing to say, 'I forgive,' but most lack the enterprise to do the necessary work that follows. It was the day after that proved who had the wisdom of God and who didn't.
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Michael Ben Zehabe
#81. 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
#82. We lack the sense of our own visibility as we lack that of distances, imagining as quite close to us the interested attention of people who on the contrary never give us a thought, and not suspecting that we are at the same moment the sole preoccupation of others.
Marcel Proust
#83. As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance - an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love - then external lack is bound to be temporary.
Marianne Williamson
#84. Do not allow a lack of one's own talent or confidence shackle the door prior to even opening it." (Ginger Susanoo, 2018).
Michael Rogers
#85. What gets me, Varinka, is not really the lack of money but all those little troubles life is full of, all whispering, all those jeers and jokes.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#86. The lack of short-term stress results in a lack of long-term health. When you always protect a human body from harm, you grow it to be fragile.
Jurgen Appelo
#87. To describe what I feel for you would lack the words, I love you more than I can explain.
Auliq Ice
#88. Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.
Fred Upton
#89. There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.
Harriet Harman
#90. It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt.
Frank Beddor
#91. Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.
Max Beerbohm
#92. A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
#93. Even if all philosophers do eat, some may eat more than others. This situation is called "lack of fairness". Or life.
Dennis E. Shasha
#94. Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.
Hal Borland
#95. I can't blame it. Its whole purpose is to prevent the atmosphere from becoming lethal. Nobody at NASA thought, "Hey, let's allow a fatal lack of oxygen that will make everyone drop dead!
Andy Weir
#96. In a pre-Internet world, sovereignty over our physical freedoms, or lack thereof, was controlled almost entirely by nation-states.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#97. 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
#98. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Albert Einstein
#99. It bothers me that so many lack common sense, that their opinions can be so biased and backward, so utterly frustrating,misguided,misinformed and dangerous that I can't stand to listen to them.
Cecelia Ahern
#100. Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.
Paul Gibbons
