Poverty Quotes · Page 73

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

We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to…

— Hilary Benn

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

— Iqbal Quadir

To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued…

— Paul Driessen

I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

There's no magic bullet to end poverty in the world. But if you could, the closest thing to it would be basic…

— Craig Kielburger

Single parent situations drive poverty and often lead to unsupervised kids. Many boys growing up without fathers often feel angry and abandoned.…

— Bill O'Reilly

“According to a World Report in this issue, more than 60 million people in India were forced below the poverty line by…

— The Lancet

“It is important that any value you add to yourself should be converted to tangible products that could benefit humanity.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Two out of ten U.S. children of all backgrounds live in poverty, and one-third of black and close to one-third of Latino…

— Sheryl Sandberg

For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch…

— Henry Miller

“But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to…

— Martin Luther King Jr

Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement, whether it's directed towards the environment, poverty, water as a resource…

— Simon Mainwaring

So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Many problems that confront us today are created by man, whether they are violent conflicts, destruction of the environment, poverty or hunger.…

— Dalai Lama

“Let us never weary of repeating, that to think first of the disinherited and sorrowful classes; to relieve, ventilate, enlighten, and love…

— Victor Hugo

The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing…

— James Madison

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

“Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

— Jocelyn K. Glei

Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.

— Akong Rinpoche

“Life is just full of disordered pieces of unachieved plans without solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Work is the only way - the only sustainable way - to escape poverty.

— Pierre Poilievre

What's with the poverty Tourette's? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president?

— Jon Stewart

Their will always be a person in need and a person with more need than that person in need

— Enrique Alcala

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

— Rutger Bregman

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

— George Gissing

“The more time you invest into your land of promise, the more productive the land becomes for you.”

— Sunday Adelaja