Quotes about Scarcity

If I look at my dreams, desires, and hopes for the future as coming from a place of scarcity and the world's limited supply, it will constantly feed the notion that someone else's success is a threat to mine.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.

A hard man is good to find.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and started up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse, of anything to eat. Hunger was the inscription on the baker's shelves, written in every small loaf of his scanty stock of bad bread;

Currently, our minds are devoted to things we do not want. Our positive intentions occupy but a tiny sliver of our minds. The rest is focused on the problems we hope the intentions will eliminate. The majority of our brainpower is devoted to the old beliefs of scarcity, problem relationships, and a God who shoots fire bolts from heaven.

the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity; it is moral ignorance and weakness of character.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.

The General was right. No one dies of hunger here - you reach out your hand and pluck a mango. That's why there is no progress. Cold countries have more advanced civilizations because the climate forces people to work.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there be, they will not let you have it.