Poverty Quotes · Page 70

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

— John Steinbeck

“The rest of the trailer reeked of cat piss and abject poverty.”

— Ernest Cline

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We definitely weren't poor growing up, but we weren't rich.

— Matt Kemp

Today people are suffering from poverty, but also from lack of love

— Pope Francis

“Poverty and mistakes are setbacks but you should never allow them to make you give up on your dreams.”

— Timothy Pina

“Light's all very well, brothers, but it's not easy to live with.”

— Mikhail Zoshchenko

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.

— Geneen Roth

“You are to use this one life to make a difference in your world. You are to invest your time and not…

— Sunday Adelaja

For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is…

— Iain Duncan Smith

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

— Bill Gates

Poverty is terror. Having your Social Security threatened is terror. Having your livelihood as an elderly person slowly disappearing with no replenishment…

— Harry Belafonte

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of…

— Nelson Mandela

We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address…

— Tom Perez

“Poor JZ is the perpetual victim. In the case of Nkandla, he was the victim of a 'supply-chain' fiasco; something he knew…

— Jacques Pauw

“The government belongs to the poor people of the country. We are custodian of people's hope. For whom should the government be?…

— Narendra Modi

There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the…

— Nicholas Negroponte

“The poor have been rebels, but they have never become anarchists: they have got more interest than anyone in there being some…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Wherever a pain is, that's where the cure goes; wherever poverty is, that's where provision goes. Wherever a difficult question is, that's…

— Jalaluddin Rumi

Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated…

— Edward Norton

You [Jill Stein] also believe in a full employment policy that was the majority Democratic Party policy in 1946. They actually passed…

— Ralph Nader

California, because of their Equity Funding Formula, moves a step in that direction by sending more resources to communities and students that…

— Pedro Noguera

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

— Chanakya

What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

— Louise Bernikow

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

— Lawrence Durrell

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

— Benjamin Franklin

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

— Kirk Douglas

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

— Stuart Wilde

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

— Anonymous

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

— James Wolfensohn

“Few things are more shameful than insolvency in a country where poverty is a moral failing.”

— Caite Dolan-Leach

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

— Oscar Wilde

“Working for your boss doesn’t make you rich, it only makes your boss richer from your sweat.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

— Madonna Ciccone

“Solitude helps you to convert your time into the clarity of purpose.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty

— Jordan Belfort

“My mom often said "We're not poor, we just don't have much money.”

— Les Cochran

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

— Helen Keller