A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“In the nearest future, those who understood the value of time will rule over those who trivialized time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it. — Lucian Copy Share Image
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Being a single mom, I fought my way through living in poverty, feeling like I wasn't ever enough, feeling an annoying tug… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
“Man, people don' need no monster to make 'em do evil-hearted shit. All it take is a brown face, or somebody wearin'… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's own mother Mary escaped the bone-crushing poverty of Scotland's remote Outer Hebrides for the promise of New York in 1929. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
“When the agents of public health lament the fact that poor black women breastfeed too little and conceive too much, they forget… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is the greatest poverty. Ignorance is death in life. There is no evil so great as ignorance. Folly is an incurable… — John Wortabet Copy Share Image
A poor American feels guilty at being poor, but less guilty than an American rentier who has inherited wealth but is doing… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ...… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“On all levels and in every aspect of our society, the poor are rejected, mistreated, and forced more deeply into their poverty.… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Success, just like poverty is a state of mind. You can become successful instantly with a simple decision and commitment. Long lasting… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“In your life, some people need you to show up as the best version of yourself so you can provide security or… — Nate Green Copy Share Image
Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
“They have shown that problems endemic to poverty—residential instability, severe deprivation, concentrated neighborhood disadvantage, health disparities, even joblessness—stem from the lack of… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed to complete our schooling. Open… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“If you really desire greatness, you should make up your mind to be a hard worker.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Poverty and mistakes are setbacks but you should never allow them to make you give up on your dreams.” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“Light's all very well, brothers, but it's not easy to live with.” — Mikhail Zoshchenko Copy Share Image
Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board. — Louise Bernikow Copy Share Image
“To reproduce your life is to convert it into tangible products for the benefit of humanity.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If You Are Born Poor Than This Is not Your mistake But If you Die Poor Than This Is Your Mistake. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
