If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin Coolidge

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

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Jack Kerouac

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
H. L. Mencken

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
W. Edwards Deming

Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
Eric Hoffer

People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Hugo

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
Victor Hugo

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
Germaine Greer

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
Alfred Adler

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Herbert Hoover

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
Fran Lebowitz

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Marie Curie

Learn from your dreams what you lack.
W. H. Auden

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O'Connor