L Quotes
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“Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition
“Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.”
“Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.”
“Lack of prayer is the lost paradise.”
“Lack of prayer maketh a powerless people.”
“Lack of prayer says you've brought into the lie that life is manageable and you've got everything under control”
“Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.”
Source: Saving lost positions
“Lack of rationality is a vice where thinking and feeling are called for—rationality is a vice where sensation and intuition should be trusted.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.”
“Lack of relationship is a breeding ground for fear. Fear and anxiety pervade the conversation about immigrants and refugees....fear is escalating isolation, which yields even more insecurity and uncertainty.”
Source: Love Undocumented: Risking Trust in a Fearful World
“Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.”
“Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence.”
“Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations.”
“Lack of self control leads to sin.”
“Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead of making the effort to investigate, we procrastinate and worry. We tell ourselves we can't instead of learning how we can. If we used the mental energy we expend in worry and fear to get out and find out about what we do not know, we would see our self-confidence grow. Lack of self-confidence is not overcome by faith, but by action. It is a lack, not of certainty, but of effort. Too often we are certain that we can't before we give ourselves a fair chance.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design
“lack of self-esteem is what causes wars because people who really love themselves don't go out and try to fight other people ... It's the root of all the problems.”
“Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness.”
“Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“Lack of sensuality is a sign that you don’t feel 100% divinely supported.”
“Lack of sensuality is poverty of the soul.”
“Lack of skill dictates economy of style.”
“Lack of sleep doesn't just make us tired; it makes us irrational, moody, and emotionally erratic (...) Chronic sleep deprivation may not only fuel anxiety and depression, but also impair our ability to manage relationships, make wise decisions, or maintain emotional balance.”
Source: Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life
“Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.”
“Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.”
“Lack of sound mind and judgement – the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions, is a matter of frustration and disillusionment to God”
“lack of sound mind and judgment – the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions, is a matter of frustration and disillusionment to God”
“Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.”
“Lack of time is a real health killer.”
“Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.”
“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.”
“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.”
“Lack of true progress may not be a result of not doing what one is supposed to, but lack of focused effort trying not to do too much.”
“Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.”
“Lack of understanding is always painful.”
“Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think either that the other's pain may somehow be a cause of happiness for themselves or that their own happiness is more important, regardless of what pain it may cause. But this is shortsighted. No one truly benefits from causing harm to another sentient being. . . . . In the long run causing others misery and infringing their rights to peace and happiness result in anxiety, fear, and suspicion within oneself.”
“Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm.”
“Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.”
“lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.”
“Lack of world vision in any Christian produces a 'pea-sized Christianity'.”
“Lack, whether financial, emotional, or physical, can emerge as a significant hurdle, depriving individuals of essential resources and limiting their opportunities to succeed.”
“Lacking a clear formula for making decisions, we get reactive and fall back on familiar, comfortable ways to decide what to do. Pinballing through our day like a confused character in a B-horror movie, we end up running up the stairs instead of out the front door. The best decision gets traded for any decision.”
Source: The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
“Lacking a shared language, emotions are perhaps our most effective means of cross-species communication. We can share our emotions, we can understand the language of feelings, and that's why we form deep and enduring social bonds with many other beings. Emotions are the glue that binds.”
Source: The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy — and Why They Matter
“Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.”
“Lacking future-set aspirations deprives us of a critical mechanism of motivation.”
“Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.”
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“Lacking older siblings, the oldest or only child identifies primarily with her parents, conforming to their ideals and demands, not the least reason being that she no one with whom to share those demands. Since firstborns try to live up to the expectations of adults- teachers' as well as parents'- rather than that of peers, they are likely to learn more and to bring home better report cards than younger siblings. Thus firstborns pave the way for younger siblings, setting the standards against which they are measured and measure themselves.
Middle children tend to be more gregarious and more dependent on the approval of peers than that of adults. For one thing they have the example of the older sibling- who has the credibility of generational sameness- to guide them in their decisions and to teach them the rules of the family road. An older sister who was grounded for a month for coming home late from a date, for instance, is a lesson not lost on her younger sister or brother.
At the same time younger children are buffered by birth order from their parents' sole concentration. Hence they are treated with more indulgence and are called upon less to take on responsibilities.”
Source: Women and Their Fathers: The Sexual and Romantic Impact of the First Man in Your Life
“Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image.”
“Lacking wealthy benefactors or steady access to resources, BLA (Black Liberation Army) cells often relied on bank robberies to secure funds (a tactic revolutionaries call “expropriations,” for it involves taking money that capitalist institutions have secured through other people’s labor and using it ostensibly to further liberatory ends).”
Source: The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States
“Lacrimile sunt reprezentarea emoţiilor unui om, manifestarea celor doi polii: ai durerii şi ai fericirii.
Ploaie de gânduri”