Poverty Quotes · Page 92

Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money".

— Silvio Berlusconi

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

— Dolly Parton

If we provide quality education to one generation, poverty will automatically be eradicated from society.

— Arvind Kejriwal

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

— George Gilder

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

— Muhammad Yunus

“Where mothers were not under the intense pressures of urban poverty, breastfeeding could flourish.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

I love where I'm from, but it's a tough, poverty-stricken area.

— Caleb Plant

The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.

— Jeffrey Sachs

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all…

— Richard M. Nixon

I grew up in poverty. I was ashamed of the fact, when we were kids, we'd be at school hungry, our stomachs…

— Jimmy Barnes

“Books are the one luxury I deem a necessity. If my purchases lead us into poverty, then at least we will be…

— Mark Brownlow

The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle,…

— John Maynard Keynes

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to…

— Richard Bach

“Choose the territory you want to conquer and invest your time into developing yourself in that area until you become the best.”

— Sunday Adelaja

This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a…

— Gabriel Marcel

I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in…

— George Rogers Clark

When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one;…

— Rumi

If I were president, I would want to spend a lot of time going to the legislatures and telling them about best…

— John Kasich

“There was a problem: No one cared about human rights anymore, not at home or abroad. They cared about growth--hoped for and…

— Daniel Alarcón

Every farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a…

— Vandana Shiva

As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level…

— Julia Gillard

Jeezy just recognized my grind, and I jumped on board with him to enhance it. Artistically, we're in the same mind frame.…

— Freddie Gibbs

“We have got into the habit of admiring colossal bandits, whose opulence is revered by the entire world, yet whose existence, once…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Technologies, including cell phones, have the potential to help millions of poor people out of poverty by enabling access to a range…

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

— Tracy Morgan

Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty.

— Sangharakshita

The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries.

— Jose Angel Gurria

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

— Ray LaMontagne

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

— Jean Anouilh

“Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.”

— Anthony Liccione

Let's confer prestige on colleges' breaking cycles of poverty.

— Miguel Cardona

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

— Adam Davidson

Poverty is good for nothing, except perhaps for football.

— Jorge Valdano

Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means.

— John Calipari

If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better?

— Bill Cosby

One thing poor people never have to worry about... going broke!

— Cj Phillips

The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there's a lot of poverty.

— Dustin Poirier

“The quality of time you are able to concentrate and use to produce values is what determines your greatness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal…

— Jonathan Swift

We are not limited by money, but rather by the poverty of our own dreams.

— Doug Wead