“We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.”
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
Native Son (1940)
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Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist
Source: The Reader Over Your Shoulder (1943), Ch. 3: "Where Is Good English to Be Found?"
“Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
“Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Source: See You at the Top
Sarmad Kashani (1590–1661) Persian mystic, poet and saint
Source: Sarmad, Martyr to Love Divine, p. 241 (2005)
“It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack”
William Carlos Williams book Journey to Love
'of what is found there.'
Journey to Love (1955), Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
Source: Asphodel, That Greeny Flower and Other Love Poems: That Greeny Flower
Glen Cook book Soldiers Live
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 5, “An Abode of Ravens: Headquarters” (p. 382)
“Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.”
At quanto ego de illis melius existimo! ipsi quoque haec possunt facere, sed nolunt. Denique quem umquam ista destituere temptantem? cui non faciliora apparuere in actu? Non quia difficilia sunt non audemus, sed quia non audemus difficilia sunt.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Also translated as: It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, but because we do not dare, things are difficult.
Letter CIV, verse 26
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius)
Context: But how much more highly do I think of these men! They can do these things, but decline to do them. To whom that ever tried have these tasks proved false? To what man did they not seem easier in the doing? Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.
“Romania is dying because of a lack of men, not a lack of programs.”
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899–1938) Romanian politician
For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Politics