Poverty Quotes · Page 98

“Those who have become great have only discovered something that the rest of the world has not discovered.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems.

— T. Harv Eker

Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.

— Seneca the Elder

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

— Dustin Hoffman

Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children.

— Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

— Dorothy Day

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

— Gertrude Stein

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

— Immanuel Kant

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on…

— Jane Fonda

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased…

— Judith Butler

Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.

— Mark Winne

“The poor stole what they could from the rich, and the rich stole what they could from the working poor - one…

— Mary Gabriel

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the…

— Anonymous

As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.

— Jacque Fresco

I trained myself. Long ago, 'Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my…

— Coco Chanel

We believe that a civilised society can be measured by the way in which it treats its most vulnerable members and that…

— Grant Shapps

The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum…

— Eileen Simpson

“History testifies to the truth that it is misery that teaches men more than happiness, that it is poverty that strengthens them…

— Kaiten Nukariya

I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat…

— Jenny Eclair

The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness…

— Lesslie Newbigin

And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of…

— Cornel West

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“The truth was that nature had endowed them with a larger share of brains than was common in their circle, and had…

— George Gissing

“Our goals and objectives are supposed to be well planned out in our minds.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

— Albert Camus

“Poverty is a mental virus, even if one could get a million, the mindset will always kick in.”

— Evans Biya

Lazy hands make a poor man,but didigent hands bring wealth.

— Anonymous

“Poverty smothers our dreams even before we have finished dreaming them.”

— Rafik Schami

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

— O. Henry

Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.

— Sugata Mitra

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

— Malcolm Turnbull

“One thing is needful and that is converting your time into fulfilling your purpose on the earth.”

— Sunday Adelaja

There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.

— Roger Chamberlain

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

— Bill Gates

There is no poverty where there is character, and no wealth or honor where character is missing.

— Vikrant Parsai

The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health.

— Bill Gates

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

— Anton Chekhov

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

— Euripides

This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.

— Abu Bakar Bashir