Poverty Quotes · Page 139

Ask every politician and leader: What are your plans to end poverty? What are your plans to protect the climate? What are…

— Jonathan Granoff

“If you must be great, you must learn to check and compel yourself to invest time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

If bad and inexperienced politicians control power in Nigeria, my wealth may turn into poverty, and I am not ready to become…

— Aliko Dangote

“If you waste a minute, you have wasted life and if you waste an hour, you have wasted life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“If you invest your life into yourself, you are not pouring your life out somewhere, to some job or for some salary,…

— Sunday Adelaja

“By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.”

— Anonymous

GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me…

— William Shakespeare

Boredom is the keynote of poverty ... it's dark brown sameness.

— Moss Hart

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the…

— Cal Thomas

“Life had given her nothing but money, a poor gift,”

— Kate O'Brien

When I want to explain why empowering girls and women is critical to fighting poverty, I often tell a person's story. It's…

— Helene D. Gayle

European countries give much larger shares of aid for poverty relief than the U.S.

— Angus Deaton

I grew up in a mobile home, but it wasn't like white trash - it was a beautiful mobile home park, I…

— Taryn Manning

There are people in poverty who, if they have the gumption, say, "I'm leaving here. I'm gonna take three jobs and make…

— Alan Sparhawk

I grew up poor.

— Jessica Chastain

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

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

— Bible

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn…

— Henry David Thoreau

So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those…

— Germaine Greer

We draw many benefits from globalization that people take for granted. Poverty has been reduced massively around the world. If you look…

— Christine Lagarde

Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater…

— Walter Scott

All the poor white people, all the poor black people, all the Hispanics, they're in the same boat. They've got no economic…

— Charles Barkley

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

— Pope Francis

Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?" Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as if to herself.…

— Isak Dinesen

I broke up wit proverty & d last tin d bastard said 2 mi U wil neva find anoda lyke mi I…

— Anonymous

The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

— James Cook

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

— Benjamin Carson

I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which…

— Vida Goldstein

I am a poor hater.

— James A. Garfield

Seventy-five percent of our energy around the earth is being poured into war efforts. Are we servants of death and destruction? This…

— Rajneesh

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. ¦ In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

— Anonymous

“You're only poor if you choose to be. Meaning: you can be rich in spirit, you can be rich in thought, you…

— Dolly Parton

We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through…

— Park Chung-hee

“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick…

— Sarah Kendzior

“If you can take ten thousand hours and divide it by the number of hours, you can concentrate and devote to repeatedly…

— Sunday Adelaja

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

— Chanakya

We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or…

— Hermann Hesse

UNEMPLOYMENT IS THE KEY TO POVERTY,THEREFORE EVERY ONE SHOULD WORK HARD TO GET EMPLOYED, IN ORDER TO LIVE A HAPPY LIFE.

— Juliana Namagembe

[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give…

— Marsilio Ficino

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

— Coco Chanel