“You have infinite value and worth! You already know you have strengths and inner resources. But you have even more strengths and resources that you are not yet fully aware of, and they will enhance your life as you become more aware of them. There are many more strengths and inner resources that you can gain and build up from now on.” KnowsValuesGainsResourcesInfiniteAnticipationHaving Strength Book:Building your self-image: and the self-image of others Source: Building your self-image: and the self-image of others
“Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.” ImportantHelpingEarthPoliticalGirlGrowthRightsEconomicGainsResourcesPopulationFactorsPlusGorePopulation GrowthEconomic PowerWorld PopulationReproductive RightsPoint BreakSafeguarding Author:Al Gore
“The millions currently trapped in poverty and despair are a tremendous untapped resource. Just think of what it would mean for America to gain full use of the talents and abilities of all her people. They would develop new innovations to improve our lives, or help build the next great American company.” PeopleThinkingMeanHelpingUseAmericaNextAbilityCompanyPovertyMillionsOur LivesTalentDespairGainsResourcesInnovationTrappedGreat AmericanTalents And Abilities Author:Marco Rubio
“As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.” MenSocialWomenGreaterGainsResourcesEconomicsFeminist Author:Linda Gordon
“The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.” MindHumansMeanGreaterGainsResourcesLaborCertaintyRelyProportionHuman MindDeprivedExertion Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“Some [people] think that there is a central organization responsible for all the institutions they wrongly think affiliated with me. They ignore the zeal of many to serve humanity and to gain God's good pleasure in doing so. They ignore people's generosity. Such misunderstandings may lead others to have suspicions about the financial resources of the schools.” PeopleThinkingMaySchoolHumanityPleasureGainsResourcesOrganizationResponsibleInstitutionsFinancialGenerositySuspicionMisunderstandingZealFinancial ResourcesIgnoring People Author:Fethullah Gulen
“The main mineral in your cellphone, coltan [a black metallic ore], comes from the Eastern Congo. Multinational corporations are there exploiting the very rich mineral resources of the region. A lot of them are backing militias which are fighting one other to gain control of the resources or a piece of the resources.” FightingBlackRichPiecesGainsResourcesCorporationsRegionsEasternCongoMineralsMilitiaMultinationalsCellphoneMetallicMultinational CorporationsMineral Resources Author:Noam Chomsky
“A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.” WorldGovernmentGainsResourcesDebtPhilanthropyHistoricPrivate SectorLimited ResourcesPersonal Gain Author:Simon Mainwaring
“The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.” NeedsRealCausesPoorGainsResourcesHungerAccessPowerlessness Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But in so far as they consume the fuel resources of the globe they are very different. The one is like spending the interest on a legacy, and the other is like spending the legacy itself. ... [There is] a still hardly recognised coming energy problem.” MayStillsDifferentProblemRunningScienceEnergyInterestWaterNatureNaturalDifferencesDevelopmentPureWasteGainsResourcesAccountsSpendingLegacyFuelGlobesWater PowerNatural Energy Author:Frederick Soddy