Poverty Quotes · Page 102

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

— Francis Bacon

“I was not use to that kind of hunger, even as a poor college student.”

— Julie Wenzel

First I was rich, then I was poor, now I am rich, again and I want to stay that way.

— Demis Roussos

In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.

— John Burdett

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

— Paul Collier

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.

— Victoria Moran

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

— Napoleon Hill

If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with…

— Jose Saramago

“The poorest person on earth is not the person who has no job, no cars, no money and no house. The poorest…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Sleep deprivation is physically miserable and creatively cathartic, as internal landscapes rise up from their dormant ashes.”

— Jaeda DeWalt

“The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich…

— George Bernard Shaw

I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just…

— Christopher Hitchens

Your poverty today is because of who you are. Want wealth? Let go of your anchors and inhibitions and change yourself.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.

— Terry Wogan

When I got the women's marathon into the Olympics and we had races all over the world I thought, 'That's great, now…

— Kathrine Switzer

The way you feel is your point of attraction, and so, the Law of Attraction is most understood when you see yourself…

— Esther Hicks

When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing…

— Ian Mcewan

When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make…

— Patrisse Cullors

The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first…

— Frederick Soddy

The burden of health care shouldn't be borne by the poorest families. We should have equity within health systems so that families…

— Mary Robinson

To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being,…

— Neville Goddard

Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I…

— George Saunders

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

— Molly Ivins

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“For you to be great, you must make sure that every second of your life counts.”

— Sunday Adelaja

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

— Henry Ford

I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.

— Dolly Parton

“If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.”

— Amit Kalantri

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

— Joseph Jefferson

“Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

— Josh Billings

“Ambition is a poor excuse for not being smart enough to be lazy.”

— Anonymous

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

— William Pitt

Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Our current state of affairs reduces to poverty people born for better things.”

— Matthew Desmond

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”

— Amit Kalantri

“You too can become wealthy but only thanks to the amount of time you are willing to convert into products.”

— Sunday Adelaja