“You are in charge of your life and how great you become is up to you.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Greatness cannot be attained by wasting time on frivolities of life.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Deprivation, poverty, problems are your true friends, your talents are hidden in polishing these opportunitie — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“Racism—if you look closely—is about profit. The whole system was built on it. War—if you look closely—is about profit. Poverty, which is… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
I was an aid worker for a decade and then worked in the voluntary sector in the U.K. on U.K. child poverty… — Jo Cox Copy Share Image
poverty ... is very bad for the formation of a personality. ... Not until I knew for certain where my next meal… — Helen Westley Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Poverty is no crime; always remember that. After all, why should we despair? Our present difficulties will pass away, and God will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread,… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
“It is the peculiar lowness of poverty that you discover first; the shifts that it puts you to, the complicated meanness, the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Our Government understands that local, community organizations are essential in addressing social issues like economic development, poverty, education and integration in Canadian… — Ed Holder Copy Share Image
To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease or to think riches when in the midst of the appearances of… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
“To economists, everything revolves around scarcity - after all, even the biggest spenders can't buy everything. However, the perception of scarcity is… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
“The poor man's son, whom heaven has in its anger visited with ambition, goes beyong admiration of palaces to envy. He labours… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“I would like to see all this as a big joke that is being played upon us, but I have seen what… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
