Poverty Quotes · Page 60

Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

— Paulo Coelho

The worst nightmare for al Qaeda is to come into a community that feels supported and has hope.

— Lindsey Graham

Growing up, we weren't poor, but we didn't have money to spare.

— Rachel Reeves

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

— Martial

Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.

— Peter Kropotkin

Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution.

— Eduardo Paes

“The wealth of time is the only wealth that is more valuable than human resources.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

— Shimon Peres

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime,…

— Bill Bennett

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a…

— Ayrton Senna

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels…

— Horace Greeley

“The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing…

— David Berliner

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my…

— Thein Sein

“The lords themselves are responsible for making the poor people their enemy. They do not want to remove the cause of insurrection,…

— Thomas Müntzer

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not…

— Moss Hart

For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss…

— Fawzia Koofi

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn…

— Henry David Thoreau

If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a…

— Edmund White

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that…

— Adam Smith

“Once our family was very small and we used to say, ‘’our planet has enough resources to feed all of us’’ but…

— M.F. Moonzajer

Anger is a little thing. Hate is a little thing. Order is a little thing. Each of these little things has a…

— Iyanla Vanzant

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want…

— Paul Ryan

The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Life is not easy for anyone here. Loss and fear, failure and disappointment, pain and ill-health, doubt and death-even those who have…

— Vikram Seth

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

— Jessica Jackley

“My parents sold blood for money to buy food. Poverty was our spirit animal.”

— Sherman Alexie

You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.

— Stephen Leacock

“(a deprivation that, in truth, was not so much a daily trial of living as a suffocating flatness of life),”

— Jonathan Stone

Rich or poor, we are to “do what we can” when others are in need.

— Jeffrey R. Holland

I was a poor kid, and my mom was a single mother of three.

— Kelly Clarkson

“You will never solve poverty without solving health and sanitation.”

— Nivesh Raj

Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.

— Douglas Lenat

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

— Christine Gregoire

I trained myself not to want things, because I thought I'd always be poor.

— Jean Marsh

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

— Seneca the Younger

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

— Sophia Loren

“The first thing you want to do to become great is to discover your area of calling.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“There would come a time in our poverty when we needed a party.”

— John Steinbeck

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower