“How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Every state in this nation has been made better by those who have chosen to move here to escape persecution or extreme… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
“But to die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather… — David Ross Copy Share Image
“The danger of procrastination is that it gives you fake impression that you have all the time and makes you forget that… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Women are more focused on the development of the quality of life in their countries. They are more involved in social and… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Whatever you focus on, expands. If you see the world through your dreams, prosperity materializes before your very eyes. If you see… — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time… — Clint Black Copy Share Image
“I've learned that solutions to poverty must be driven by discipline, accountability, and market strength, not easy sentimentality. I've learned that many… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
If a market exists for low-paid work, then we should think about how we can make this type of work more attractive… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The poor man is incapacitated from showing the virtue of generosity to anyone, though he may possess it in the highest degree;… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“...education is not the way out of the poverty trap. A high education level is no guarantee of high productivity. The truth… — William W. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty,… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
Poverty is a trap: it should be eradicated. It's no real answer just lifting a few children from families stuck on low… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Historically, it has required a combination of favorable employment trends and active government intervention to lower the percentage of people in poverty… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“I came to think of poverty of speech as a reflection of the richness of the mind, giving it time to explore… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich,… — Al-Waleed bin Talal Copy Share Image
I did my residency on the South Side of Chicago.We were taking care of people who were incredibly sick and were really… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're… — Garret Keizer Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“When people ask me how come I have written over three hundred books my response to them is take advantage of time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Life is a race. You are racing against time. Your life is such that you are running a race against a diminishing… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven't even heard… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door -… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Do not avoid doing what you love because you fear that it will only result in poverty or lack. If you fear… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
For many food poverty is the product of a toxic combination of low wages, austerity economics, spiralling food prices and lengthy delays… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
