Poverty Quotes · Page 2

“You can remodel yourself to anything you want to become.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

— Philip Larkin

My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she…

— Stacey Abrams

“The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?”

— Anthony Liccione

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I made an effort to ensure social safeguards. But our economy has to grow - and Chile, with a population of 17…

— Michelle Bachelet

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

— Charles Lamb

“To reproduce your life is to convert it into tangible products for the benefit of humanity. To reproduce your life is to…

— Sunday Adelaja

The thinker is going to find a way to put clothes on his back.

— Marlon Cortez Stanfield

There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want…

— Madsen Pirie

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

— Thomas Fuller

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we…

— Nancy Mairs

“Take hold of your passing time and convert it into living your dreams. Only then can you truly fulfill the great destiny…

— Sunday Adelaja

It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The…

— Condoleezza Rice

Now, you might say – “But why should we pay people for doing what they’re supposed to do?” It’s a fair question…

— Michael Bloomberg

“Knowledge is wealth, wisdom is treasure, understanding is riches, and ignorance is poverty.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

— Mason Cooley

“Greatness can be bought with the currency of time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

— Charlotte Bronte

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

— Zong Qinghou

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

— William J. H. Boetcker

I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.

— Matthew Desmond

Poverty and backwardness in the midst of clear waters and verdant mountains is no good, nor is it to have prosperity and…

— Li Keqiang

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty

— Aristotle

If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing. Go…

— Charles Spurgeon