Resources Quotes

• The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Science, History, Tree

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.47, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.

  George Soros

  Use, Investing, Easier

  George Soros (2007). “Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror”, p.182, PublicAffairs

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  Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Business, Ignorant, Littering

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• Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world.

  Carly Fiorina

  World, Limitless, Human Potential

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• You need only examine your present situation to discover unlimited resources and opportunities.

  Ari Kiev

  Opportunity, Perspective, Needs

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• You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.

  Mother Teresa

  Earth, Contribution

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• I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

  Robert Redford

  Nature, Thinking, Earth Day

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• The internet has huge advantages but its downside is the easy access to resources.

  Horace Panter

  Internet, Easy, Advantage

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

  Wangari Maathai

  Erosion, Issues, Logging

  "I Will Disappear Into the Forest". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2005.

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• The most precious resource for businesspeople is not their time. It's their energy. Manage it well.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Success, Energy

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jun 04, 2014

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• Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Nature, Men, Hands

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.60, Best Books on

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• Time is your most important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes; once gone is gone for good.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Important, Gone, Minutes

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• There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

  Ed Asner

  Food Banks, Ending Hunger, World

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• When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge...is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Pain, Emotional

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• Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

  John Haggai

  Confidence, Focus, Energy

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• They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

  Denis Kearney

  Race, Land, People

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• Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men

  Gifford Pinchot

  Wise, Mean, Men

  Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.505, Island Press

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• Human potentialities constitute the world's greatest resource.

  Julian Huxley

  World, Human Potential, Humans

  "The New Divinity". "Essays of a Humanist". Book by Julian Huxley, 1964.

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• Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rich, Economics, Poor

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• To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Nature, Children

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.30, Taylor Trade Publications

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  When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that's what makes a leader.

  Dolores Huerta

  Giving Up, Community, Leader

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• The earth will continue to regenerate its life sources only as long as we and all the peoples of the world do our part to conserve its natural resources. It is a responsibility which every human being shares. Through voluntary action, each of us can join in building a productive land in harmony with nature.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Nature, Responsibility, Land

  "Earth Day, 2015: Mixed Reactions" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. April 22, 2015.

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• We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations.

  Alma Adams

  Generations, Environment, Protect

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• The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If we of this generation destroy the resources from which our children would otherwise derive their livelihood, we reduce the capacity of our land to support a population, and so either degrade the standard of living or deprive the coming generations of their fight to life on this continent.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Fighting, Pursuit Of Happiness

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