Lack Quotes

There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

It is very frightening to see a resurgence of the old mores, or lack thereof, regarding women's rights to their own bodies.

After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.

What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

We don't get groupies, well I don't see them, anyway. That was something that I always looked forward to and am constantly disappointed by the lack of!

Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It's really just a lack of focus and discipline.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play.

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.