“True loneliness, I learned that day, isn’t the lack of others. It’s the lack of others quickly.”

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. ”

Vince Lombardi (1913–1970) American football player, coach, and executive

“But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that he takes them from them, and tries the other way: for lack of them and its misery, they will perhaps seek the true!”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

“Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.”

Terry Pratchett book Snuff

“I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.”

Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player

“The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.”

Edward Thomas (1878–1917) Poet and journalist

“People fail to achieve goals not because of lack of abilities, but because of lack of determination. (any ability can be learned).”

Carlos Gershenson (1978) Mexican researcher

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

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

“Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.”

Alain Badiou (1937) French writer and philosopher

“The great trouble is that individuals and races in their treatment of each other are not guided by the same high standards of impartiality as an individual organism in dealing with his own organs and parts. Life is not one. It lacks unity of feeling and purpose. And as long as it lacks this oneness it will lack justice.”

J. Howard Moore (1862–1916)