Poverty Quotes · Page 41

I have the grace of providence to be poor.

— Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

The poor know they are in need.

— Heidi Baker

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.

— Anonymous

My main aim is poverty reduction in the state.

— Naveen Patnaik

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Grind the faces of the poor.

— Isaiah

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

— Jewel

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Vikrant Parsai

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Roger Chamberlain

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

— Abu Bakar Bashir

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

— Euripides

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

— Anton Chekhov

“Only through the conversion of time can territories be conquered.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the…

— James Roosevelt

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus…

— Harri Holkeri

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's…

— Thomas R. Kelly

I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the…

— Sophia Bush

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the…

— Anonymous

“People are training for success when they should be training for failure. Failure is far more common than success; poverty is more…

— John C. Maxwell

His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of…

— Hannah Arendt

In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on…

— Mark Levin

The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

[A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the…

— Barack Obama

Given the fact that poverty is growing, more and more Americans are losing health insurance, health care costs are going up, the…

— Bernie Sanders

The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes,…

— Oscar Wilde

“For the mentally disturbed, Marie knew these sandwich visits might be the only dependable moments in their lives. She also knew she…

— Sherman Alexie

Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank". This may…

— Mao Zedong

Confidence is the poor mans money

— Evan Taubenfeld

Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.

— John Gardner

Though very poor, may still be very blest.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I was poor, black, I overcame all those things.

— Mark Robinson

A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.

— William Shakespeare

Criminality is always the result of poverty.

— Jacob Zuma

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

— Sunday Adelaja

“Grace is released more abundantly as you work.”

— Sunday Adelaja