Poverty Quotes · Page 82

You're not poor because you don't have money. You're poor if you don't have a dream.

— Randy Gage

Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly).

— Margaret Sanger

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

— Douglas Lenat

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

— Nivesh Raj

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

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

— Jean Marsh

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

— Christine Gregoire

The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India,…

— Anonymous

A home's poverty and a whole country's poverty is critically dependant on the same factors i.e. resources and population.

— Farid

Poverty took me from being the girl who was always the lead in the school play, to a woman who can't open…

— Jack Monroe

“If you want to be among the few who rule the world you therefore must learn to convert every time of your…

— Sunday Adelaja

“Make sure you understand when best you are effective and then schedule your most important tasks within that time of the day.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it…

— Charles A. Murray

Only nuclear can lift all humans out of poverty while saving the natural environment. Nothing else - not coal, not solar, not…

— Michael Shellenberger

The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last…

— Peter Blair Henry

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything…

— Francis of Assisi

The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line. Our first school was…

— Shukla Bose

Poverty comes from Hell. Prosperity comes from Heaven. Adam had complete dominion over the earth and all it contains. A. Adam could…

— Benny Hinn

We need to create jobs for 300,000 youth graduating from high school in the next three years. We need to produce growth…

— Ashraf Ghani

In fact, everything that emanates from source emanates from a source of well-being. When we take on this ego consciousness, when we…

— Wayne Dyer

“Ngo Diem was heard to say, “I want a repressive machine controlling the whole of the country of South Vietnam from Saigon…

— Michael G. Kramer

Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made…

— Anonymous

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

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Eduardo Paes

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

— Peter Kropotkin

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

— Martial

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

Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously.

— Dillon Burroughs

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

— Jonathan Stone

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

— Stephen Leacock

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

— Sherman Alexie

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

— Jessica Jackley

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

— Shimon Peres

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

— Jon Stewart