Poverty Quotes · Page 46

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

— Eli Khamarov

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

— Barack Obama

If you feel sad laugh if you feel fear,plunge ahead.if you feel poverty,think of wealth to come.

— AXLL_SBLNS

“A product is supposed to be what you are intentionally producing with your life at least every month.”

— Sunday Adelaja

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

— Phillips Brooks

“Poverty is a giant, it uses your face like a mop to wipe away the world's garbage.”

— Celine

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

— Matthew Desmond

Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

— Hebrew Proverb

“You and I must learn and understand the value of time and how to invest it if we must achieve anything of…

— Sunday Adelaja

Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied…

— Catherine Ponder

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

— Charles Spurgeon

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social…

— Barney Frank

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war,…

— Lester B. Pearson

“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I believe we should appoint a cabinet-level position that will be solely and fully devoted to ending poverty as we know it…

— Martin Luther King III

But will this attention to poverty be sustained or transient? That depends on our leaders - whether we step up and sustain…

— John Edward

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do…

— Henry David Thoreau

War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity.…

— Jacque Fresco

If you fall into poverty, live that way without grumbling - then your poverty will not burden you. Likewise, if you are…

— Anonymous

Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even…

— Johann Arndt

[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their…

— Anna Quindlen

“Jesus said, “If those who lead you say to you, ‘Look, the Kingdom is in the sky,’ then the birds of the…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving…

— Benjamin Franklin

By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that…

— Bill Gates

“You must fight to invest your time into producing products and added value to your generation.”

— Sunday Adelaja

As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.

— Martin Luther

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

— Thabo Mbeki

To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.

— Jean Vanier

Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries.

— Peter Thomas Bauer

Urbanisation, poverty, youth unemployment are leading to violence-prone cities.

— Peter Maurer

“Strive to discover why you exist and then begin to invest your time into your purpose and calling.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“When you invest your time you will notice that you are being fruitful and that you are multiplying your life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

— Jose Mujica

Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket

— Arthur Melvin Okun

“My charge to you and to anyone else who desire greatness is that you should not trivialize time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Take charge of your life and multiply it. Be in control of your life and your time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

— Aga Khan IV

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“If you need money to be rich, you will always be poor.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo