“19 aHe who tills his land will have plenty of bread, But he who follows frivolity will have poverty enough!” — Jack Hayford Copy Share Image
“To see time and life correctly, you must realize that whenever you waste a second, you are wasting life.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Poverty and crisis can mask a child's potential, but they can't determine it. And a zip code, definitely doesn't determine what kid… — Aaron Gordon Copy Share Image
“There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude that gives everything back its value. At a certain level of wealth, the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and… — Ralph Wiley Copy Share Image
In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid… — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
Racism is not nearly as important as poverty. That's the same around the world. What look like ethnic problems are really economic… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Through job creation, quality public services and better working conditions, people, communities and countries can lift themselves out of poverty, improve livelihoods,… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
“To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of… — Petrus Borel Copy Share Image
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war.… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“Without some redistribution of wealth and power, downward mobility and debilitating poverty will continue to drive people into desperate channels. And without… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
In this fight I want to show people who are in poverty, downtrodden or denied that you can succeed. I want my… — Tavoris Cloud Copy Share Image
Everyone was poor. We were satisfied with a life that was simple and humble. We were a peaceful, open people. — Nadia Murad Copy Share Image
The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism. — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
“The world only gives money to those who have converted their time into products.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor. — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
Many benefit cuts hit single parents hardest and punish children by forcing their families into destitution. — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
I believe that capitalism is the one thing in this world that's brought people out of poverty. — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
“Most people do not know how to exchange their lives for external treasures.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
I don’t believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That’s bullshit. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
So they pay $1,000,000 for commercials of starving kids, but they can't feed them? — Anonymous Copy Share Image