Scarce Quotes

187 Scarce quotes by 155 unique authors

Faith in people is an essential quality of an influencer when working with others, yet it is a scarce commodity today. — John C. Maxwell
Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. — Seth Godin
Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune Than… — Edward Dowden
When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of… — B. C. Forbes
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed. — Benjamin Franklin
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. — Oliver Goldsmith
Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely… — Hjalmar Schacht
There is only one important resource which has shown a trend of increasing scarcity rather than increasing abundance. That resource is the most important of… — Julian Simon
Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we’ve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said,… — Gabriel Zaid
Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with the glaring clarity… — Aron Ralston
Where resources are plentiful (i.e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i.e. many constraints), you will find an abundance… — Andy Murray
He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise… — John Dryden
The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scarce. When… — Richard Heinberg
...when we really get into hard times, where food is scarce or there is none at all, and so with clothing and shelter, money may… — J. Reuben Clark
We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences. Instead, we… — Richard M. Nixon
There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's… — Benjamin Franklin
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. — Horace Walpole
Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured… — Marshall McLuhan
The people of Sydney who can speak of my work without a smile are very scarce. — Lawrence Hargrave
I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other… — Robert Boyle
Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce. — Ellen Tauscher
For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large.… — Alfred North Whitehead
There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore. — John Hillaby
The biggest shortage in the world is not oil or food-it's leadership. Why is it such a scarce resource? Because egos get involved. Most people… — Bob Davids

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