Poverty Quotes · Page 50

“There is nothing more precious than the wealth of time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I'm not a good musician, but I did my homework and I knew this was my way out of profound poverty.

— Haim Saban

Eliminating global poverty will need the talent and potential of all, not just half the population.

— Alok Sharma

I'm from poverty, I'm never satisfied with anything I do.

— Boosie

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

— Charles Barkley

A poor person is one who usually remembers what he had eaten the same day last week.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Three belongings impoverish: Love, hope and fake friendships.”

— Tiziri Wuming

...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a…

— Pope Francis

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity…

— Jane Jacobs

I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and…

— Assata Shakur

“He was convinced that poverty was the only way of life for a certain category of people; they would die without it.”

— Ninotchka Rosca

Relief, or redistribution of income, voluntary or coerced, is never the true solution of poverty, but at best a makeshift, which may…

— Henry Hazlitt

Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of…

— Melvin B. Tolson

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the…

— Thomas Paine

Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law…

— Opal Tometi

“The poor man, a term which means the man who doesn't know how to operate and release the riches of his mind,…

— Joseph Murphy

I think President Barack Obama is going to be treated very, very well by history in terms of his ability to save…

— Tom Vilsack

“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities…

— Mohsin Hamid

I see a violation of human rights not in the mere fact that people don't have enough to eat and that they…

— Thomas Pogge

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs -…

— Joe Klein

I am furious at the way that we have allowed money to subvert our democracy. I am appalled at the way that…

— Alex Gibney

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion…

— Charles Alexander Eastman

We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

“You too can buy greatness by converting your time into greatness through hard work.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The poor aren't those who have LITTLE,but those who want much”

— Pepe Mujica

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

— Lenny Bruce

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

— Henry Ford

“In order to become great, one must understand the secret of time conversion.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

— Rosalind Russell

“You can gain the mastery over skill if only you will invest time to work hard.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“You don’t have to be rich to understand time conversion.”

— Sunday Adelaja

If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty.

— Napoleon Hill

Make Among the most of your wealth before you become poor.

— Rosie

“God's friendship is with people who know their poverty.”

— Oswald Chambers

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

— Charles Spurgeon

You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.

— Sean Parker

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

— Mary Stewart

The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages.

— David Rolf

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

— Leo Tolstoy